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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My best friend from high school has been working on a new venture focused on Hotels and Reviews called VibeAgent. I've been looking for a site like this for a while since I like to travel and like to find out places that my friends have stayed that they recommend. Sites like Expedia and TripAdvisor do a pretty bad job at capturing or bubbling any kind of review information for Hotels, let alone finding stuff your friends and friends of friends have reviewed.
Anyway, VibeAgent is in private beta right now, but if you want to play with it send me an email at shahineo at hotmail.com and I'll send you an invite. I only have a few, so first come first serve.
I've already reviewed a number of hotels and it's pretty fun. It's a nice reminder of the fun places I've been in the past. It's even more fun to read the reviews folks have written about the places I've stayed...