LiveSide - Interview blog

September 2007 - Posts

• Talking with Satya Nadella at Searchification

  I had an opportunity to sit down with Satya Nadella, Corporate Vice President, Search & Advertising Platform Group, right after he presented at Searchification. We talked about the "super-positive" internal buzz within Microsoft about the new search, some strategies for how to increase search share (by going after the 70 million users of Live Search now, and the 500 million MSN users who may or may not be using Live Search as much as they could). I'll be adding in some more notes this weekend, and getting our dev guy Scott to help with a Silverlight version, but for now in the interest of getting this out, here's the unadorned .mp3 file. Enjoy (and thanks, Satya!) Chapter Points: 0.00 Internal Beta + Employee Buzz 1.46 70m Live Search users - How to retain them with UI and features 3.31 Targeting the Windows Live and MSN users to increase search share 4.55 Branding issues - Will Live Search remain as Microsoft's search brand? Satya neatly avoids the question. 5.50 Focus on MSN.com over Live.com users - The 70m Live Search users come from MSN 7.57 Search: good user experience v advertising medium 10.27 This release of Live Search and the future 11.48 What is the one feature that needs the most work LiveSide with Satya Nadella at Searchification.mp3 (11.3mb, 12 minutes 50 seconds) Posted Sep 28 2007, 08:01 PM by Kip Kniskern with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search, Searchification

• Windows Live Platform: Interview With Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan

  At MixUK this week, I got a chance to sit down with Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan who are both very much involved with the Windows Live Platform. It was an interesting chat, finding out some new information, so take a listen. The breakdown of the interview is as follows: 00:15 - Intros 01:04 - What's been at Mix UK 01:51 - Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live 05:20 - What is Windows Live Data? (Can you spot my deliberate mistake) 09:30 - Future APIs? SkyDrive perhaps? REST vs SOAP vs ? 12:13 - Public knowledge of the Windows Live Platform and the WL Developer community 17:10 - Visual Studio Toolkit for Windows Live 18:58 - Closing up. What really got my attention was the Toolkit that is coming for Visual Studio, it's great to see something like this being done, and hopefully makes it that bit easier for developers to leverage the Windows Live Platform. For the first time, we are also letting you listen to the interview from within this blog entry and we are doing this using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. I have also included "chapter" points in the audio, so pressing the skip button (next to the stop button) will take you straight to the points mentioned above. (Watch out for a post later showing just how I went about doing all this). Listen: LiveSide with Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan.mp3, Duration: 19:56, Filesize: 9.12mb SL Posted Sep 14 2007, 12:47 PM by ScottIsAFool with 34 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live Platform