Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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A long time ago, when I started tinkering with coding in C#, I got to know Adam Sheppard. Adam was working on MSN Spaces at the time and was interested in finding a blogging solution he could use for an internal blog he was going to start. I got him set up with dasBlog and that’s when I learned about the Shep Report. The Shep Report was an internal newsletter that Adam wrote and sent around to a DL he created. I was pretty amazed with the membership of this DL (it has some pretty senior folks at Microsoft). So of course I subscribed.
The Shep Report was always packed with interesting things happening in social media and other web trends. I really looked forward to it even though it had a sporadic publication schedule.
Well Adam eventually left the MSN Spaces team to go on and become one of the founding members of Microsoft Live Labs and specifically Photosynth. I got to hang out with Adam at two different ETech conferences and I always enjoyed talking to him about technology and Microsoft.
Adam left Microsoft a few months ago, and started a new R&D lab in Seattle called 8ninths (which refers to the unexposed, hidden percentage of an iceberg). Clever name.
Anyway, I’m writing this because they started to put out a bi-monthly newsletter, which is very similar to the good old Shep Report I looked forward to receiving at Microsoft (it’s now called "Deep Dive”). They just sent out their second issue and as usual it’s a great read (they cover Qik, the Obama Campaign, MTV, Angels & Demons and more).
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