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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TripIt has become an indispensable tool in my Web 2.0 arsenal. I use it to:
This past month the family took a trip to the east coast. This was a complicated 8 day trip with the following items in our itinerary.
TripIt managed all the details for us. It even helped me out in a pinch when I lost the print out and I needed the phone number for the limo company. I was able to email trip it from my phone and get back the info I needed using Trip To Me. It's like having a virtual travel agent.
Well, just a few days ago, I was email with Andy Denmark about some Hotmail issues TripIt was having, and I mentioned that it would be cool if Microsoft's Travel system was supported by TripIt. I forwarded him a sample email that you can get from our travel system (text/html not the PDF one) and he had coded up a solution a few hours later. SWEET! (FYI to the Microsoft peeps).
Now whenever I am going to Redmond, I can just forward the email to plans@tripit.com and my wife can automatically see my travel details right in her calendar (via subscribing to the TripIt iCal url). As you can see below, I'm going to be in Seattle next week:
wOOt! what a timesaver.
Oh, TripIt just added OpenTable support. Sweet.
Email is the new API of 2007.