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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I can't say this enough, Tripit is going to change my world. Tripit is basically a travel organizing/planning site that you forward all those pesky emails that you get when booking air, hotel or car rental. It parses them and extracts relevant meta data. This is a productivity site for managing travel, the least fun part of actually traveling.
I am the designated family travel planner and spend hours and hours a year doing this stuff online. I just took 12 emails for 4 different trips coming up in the next 6 months and Tripit parsed them all and created amazing web pages for each one. This includes, hotel, cars, flights for 3 people with multiple destinations and non round-trip flights.
These guys are geniuses.
Just when I think the net can't do anything substantially new for me, something like this comes a long and I just go WOW.
Prior to tripit I (mostly) manually copied and pasted this stuff into Outlook, and then sent my wife meeting requests so she would have the info on her calendar. What a giant waste of time. No more...
Not to mention they integrate with sites like SeatGuru.com so you can get a good seat on your flight.
If this is the future, I love it.