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From product planner to program manager

This week I took on a newly created position at Microsoft, as community program manager on the Visual Studio Ecosystem team focusing on developer community for VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility). The VSX community includes developers who build add-ins Read More...
Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 5:51 PM by klevy | 5 Comments

Spring of Windows Live sites, services, and products

feedback.live.com has an updated list of Windows Live services for feedback (31 listed as of today, with some beta sites removed previously listed): Feedback Services Live Maps Live QnA Live Search Live.com Windows Live Account Windows Live Alerts Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 5:27 PM by klevy | 1 Comments
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Summer of Windows Live sites, services, and products

There are some cool new Windows Live web sites and services rolling out lately, including my favorite new one gallery.live.com . The new Windows Live Gallery is a great resources for users of Windows Live services, and also has a story for developers Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 11:32 PM by klevy | 1 Comments
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Creating mashups using the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK

One of the cool things we are doing with the Windows Live Dev site at dev.live.com is hosting mashups on the site itself for samples, documentation, etc. The Virtual Earth team recently released a new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK mashup at dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 12:57 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Windows Live Dev launched in beta mode at dev.live.com

The Windows Live Dev site has launched today in beta mode at http://dev.live.com . The Windows Live Dev site will be an dynamic and evolving web site as both a home for developers building on the Windows Live Platform as well as hosting mashups that uses Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 11:57 AM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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My first LiveSide.net podcast interview

I was recently inteviewed in a LiveSide.net podcast by Chris Overd and Harrison Hoffman when they were visiting the Microsoft main campus in Redmond along with others from the LiveSide.net team. Refer to Interview with Ken Levy, Product Planner for the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:53 AM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Talking about the Windows Live Platform at VSLive in Orlando

I'm currently in Orlando, Florida speaking later this morning at the VSLive conference on the Windows Live Platform for developers in back to back sessions titled Modern Web Development from Mashups to IM-Based Bots. The updated abstract for the dual Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:32 AM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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How Windows Live relates to MSN

Recently, Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft-Watch.com interviewed Blake Irving , Microsoft Vice President, Windows Live Platform Group. The transcript is at Windows Live: The 50,000-Foot View and contains the excerpt below: M icrosoft Watch (MSW): When I define Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:50 PM by klevy | 1 Comments
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Windows Live Messenger Add-ins beta feature for developers

Windows Live Messenger beta is now available for anyone to download and install, a public beta rather than a private beta. In our continued effort to empower developers interested creating components for customizing Windows Live Messenger 8.0 via the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:17 PM by klevy | 3 Comments
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Plans for improving live.com and lessons learned

Rick Strahl blogged yesterday Live.com – I don't get it with good observations about performance and usability of live.com , as well as asking about what the goals are for the site itself. I read the blog post today and then forwarded it to people working Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:09 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Searching on "Windows Live" using Windows Live Search

There is a bunch of cool and useful new functionality on live.com , the Windows Live home page for Search, gadgets, and more. For some quick examples: Search Web for "Windows Live" General web search results on "Windows Live". Search News for "Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:05 AM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Microsoft's Experimentation Platform for Windows Live

Yesterday, Ronny Kohavi (a general manager in Windows Live division) created a new web site at http://exp-platform.com/ . The Experimentation Platform will enable product groups at Microsoft and developers using Windows Live to innovate using controlled Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:58 AM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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Rock stars continue to join the Windows Live band

In 1988, I went to a Monsters of Rock concert at the L.A. Coliseum with headlining bands like Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica (my three favorite hard rock bands). Nearly 100,000 people where rockin'. In the spirit of an all-star rock concert, I want to Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 11:37 AM by klevy | 2 Comments
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Enduring adventures to Antarctica and Microsoft

I was inspired to blog this entry based on a comment posted by Danny Thorpe on my recent blog post I made about Shackleton's adventure story in Antarctica, where he commented: If you have a yen for travel, it's possible to retrace Shackleton's steps yourself. Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 11:36 AM by klevy | 6 Comments

Slides from Windows Live Platform sessions at Mix06

PowerPoint slide decks from all Windows Live (7 total) sessions from Mix06 are online at the links below. On demand videos of all Mix06 sessions will be going online soon. The Windows Live Platform: Build Applications That Have Access to 400 Million Address Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:53 PM by klevy | (Comments Off)
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