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 am SOO excited that Windows Live Events has launched. My favorite thing about my job is that Mike Torres and I were talking about this service only last year, and we couldn't wait till it shipped... Evite has set such a low bar for this kind of thing that we knew that we could do a better job, and IMHO, the v1 of this service is just that. I expect WLE will only get better.
Also, WLE shipped in the nick of time. I just set up an Event Space for our daughter Sarah's One Year birthday (previewed on the right). I'm already in love with the site. I've got:
Big Congrats to the folks who got this service out the door!
Sounds a lot like Facebook Events.