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Thanks to Nataliya for sending the email. Look like there is a possible Windows Live ID bug which we are looking into when trying to sign up for http://webmaster.live.com , you have to sign up for a Windows Live Id, so it seems the sign up process is...

Today starts the BlogHer Business conference 2008 here in NY It's a pretty small group of women but seems pretty influential. I started the day meeting with Nelly Yusupova . So she's totally cool, and she comes from the former Soviet. Well technically...

So you are probably wondering why a new blog? Well, it's simple, since I become the Senior Product Manager for http://Webmaster.Live.com , I wanted to run a test case to see if I can use all the tools out there and learn SEO ( Search Engine Optimization...

Okay so after a long time I have finally joined Facebook, and now it is time to for me to expand my wings and write my own 'Become a Fan' page on Facebook, so now here it is! I have created the 'http://Webmaster.Live.com' page, I like it, but do you?...

{iGive=y}; Help Microsoft support the YWCA in honor of National Women’s History month in March by exchanging a donation for a limited edition iGive shirt.  The shirts will be distributed by members of Microsoft’s Developer Platform &...

Check out my new book coming August of 2008 all for chicks who want to learn more about technology.   The IT Girl's Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva by Ani Babaian (Paperback - Aug 25, 2008) Pre-order : $24.99

Linking Q&A - This panel of search representatives and search marketers takes questions about linking, from link building, to issues about buying links, to internal linkage and more. Read more about SMX West 2008 agenda... Ask your questions at...

The history of Search Engines then dove into the meat of it. So did you know? There is rocket science to search engine. Search engines were actually started by NASA to help them find documents and information they had in house during 1950's. Anyway...

Okay so you couldn't make it to SMX West 2008 and are wondering what the agenda is, and what we are up to here. Well here is the Agenda for SMX West 2008 and where you can learn more...   Technorati Tags: SMX West 2008 , Agenda for SMX , Webmaster

What is PPC? Paid per click. You can utilize Google adwords . You can also write different adds yourself. Always know it takes 5-50 times of search before a purchase happens. People begin by searching then narrow their search until a purchase happens...

So as you may have already heard/red I have changed roles. In my new role I will be focusing on SEO and Webmaster tools. You can ready more about it here . So I thought I would blog everywhere I go and the things I hear and learn from people to help...

So for those of us who think we can just bundle a bunch of keywords to make our sites or blogs easily discoverable on Google, Live.com, Yahoo or other search engines, that worked in the 90's but that time is over folks. The best thing to do after you...

Christine Churchill began the SMX Boot camp sequence this AM with the first session on Keyword Research Tools and Techniques. It was a pretty good session for a newbie to SEO. She listed a set of tools to use some free and others paid amongst these...

What do SEO, webmaster tools and I have in common? Well I have taken a new role with the Live Search team and will be focusing on the Search Engine Optimization and webmaster tools. This will be a little stretch for me, since it will be out of my normal...

When I was a Developer Evangelist we started this idea called: ".NET Bring your family." I thought it was a pretty good idea...until now. :) The idea was simple technologist come to learn about technology (i.e. .NET), spouces come to learn about Office...

Microsoft is making source code for the .Net Framework available to interested developers under its Shared Source license, the company announced on October 3. Microsoft will be rolling out the .Net code piecemeal, after scrubbing comments. It plans to...

You know I thought the new Zune's would be cooler :) Well they kinda are, I wish they would be touch screen, and I hope the software is updated. So this last weekend I used my Brown Zune quite a lot driving thru the Olympic Peninsula. A really beautiful...

Well not quite :) But you can at least see the code which will help with debugging! Something good for developers today from Microsoft. They're releasing up the source code for the .NET Framework libraries. They aren't open sourcing...

In her blog post Mary Joe said: "I am writing a book about -- you guessed it -- Microsoft. It will be published in the Spring of 2008 by John Wiley & Sons. The title: Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era. And I...

It's always nice that an article get's written about a presentation I found myself working closely on. This is obliviously more work by many other people as well to pull together the proof of concept, but I helped with pulling the session together at...

Michael Barrett, PayPal’s CSIO started speaking about how early times (‘60s and ‘70s) Multics, RACF etc., (‘80s) Kerberos , some of us still use this, (‘90s) Netegrity, Securant (acq RSA), etc., and (‘90s, ‘00s) MS Passport. So although there is a long...

You know it's kinda strange yet expected and kind of a nice surprise when 4 levels up above me begin blogging. The cool part is, now I can say all my bosses blog :) well at least 4 levels up anyway. I don't know of that many companies that have employees...

Well for a while there I was heads down trying to understand my new role and figure out what the next hot items were. I know from June 28 th to Sep 24 th is a long time, but with TechEd 2007 US and then working on Microsoft’s presence at Digital Identity...

Microsoft, Avaya, Sprint and Ping Identity come together to discuss E-SSO (Enterprise Single Sign-On) over Mobile Devices. In this panel each discussed the importance of having a mobile solution for identity. Frank Chang also demonstrated a scenario of...

Really a more overall business presentation about how and why Kim Cameron’s 7 laws apply. Attended by 20 + people the talk was mostly concentrated on why Banks should be the owners of Identity for users. Hilary Ward, CTP Director from Citi spoke about...