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 Toshiba Gigabeat S will be my next portable media player. I beta tested Portable Media Center v2 and absolutely loved it (just like I loved v1). But the v1 hardware was huge, now with v2 they support much smaller hardware and the QVGA display I had on my test device was amazing.
This is going to be a killer device. PMC UX is far far better than the iPod. CNet may have given the Creative Zen Vision:M best of show for CES, but I don’t buy for a second that Creative has learned how to create a UX that’s any better than the Micro (which was just tolerable), or stopped pushing it’s bad media player software on you.