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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The folks at ClearContext have posted a survey about e-mail usage. As you probably know, at this point I rely on ClearContext to help me with my email. When I returned to work from my excellent snowboarding trip I was greeted with > 300 unread messages in my inbox. This is for 2.5 business days. ClearContext allowed me to work through my messages from most important to least important. When all were unread I was able to focus on what I needed to. I'm down to 28 items right now.
They have also laid out their product plan. I'm really looking forward to some of the enhancements. It's not often I get excited about productivity software, and when Outlook upgrades come every 2-3 years, it's nice to have some innovation in how I deal with my email every so often . Anyway, filling out the survey will get you $5 off a license of the product as well as a chance to win a free copy. Seems win win to me!