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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Beyond the obvious, when I was chatting with Robert last week as he was visiting our team, it occurred to me that there is no one quite like him at Microsoft. He is a front line dude, and he roams around with a video camera forming relationships with as many people, teams or groups that want to tell a story. I enjoy talking to him because on may levels we feel the same way about Microsoft, blogging, technology and we only talk to each other 2–3 times a year.
Some people like him, some people don’t. But the reality is, Scoble is an incredibly unique kind of employee in the same way that Bill Gates is a unique kind of employee.
Adam Barr just posted about what kind of impact this is starting to have. It’s a fascinating observation to say the least. Some people at Microsoft (I call them the power brokers) are very good at getting tokens. It seems like this is starting to change the dynamics of what “power” means as a currency to get tokens.