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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Many years later and I still love SmugMug. They are about to have their 5 year anniversary! Very exciting.
It's funny how having a kid changes how you utilize cameras and photo sharing services. I find that I'm uploading a few hundred pictures a month now and sharing with people all over the world. SmugMug has been great for giving me the flexibility I need to share photos via their great email feature as well as setting the right privacy settings for each album.
One of the weak points of SmugMug for years has been their video support. My wife and I have taken hundreds of short video clips of Sarah over the past year. First time giggling, saying "Dada", playing with our cat and so on. It's such a joy to watch these later and share them. Because they are only a few minutes long it's quick and easy to get a smile "fix" .
I've been using MSN Soapbox to upload and share videos for the past few months but I don't care much for this solution. I wanted my videos to go side by side with my photos. Well Chris MacAskill (one of the co-founders) and I were chatting and he mentioned the new video support. I rushed on over and lo and behold they now offer video services. I uploaded a few WMV files and they were flawlessly converted to H.264, the new hotness in video formats. Even better is that they support 1280 x 720 which my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 supports.
note: you need a power/pro account to upload videos.