February 2006 - Posts
O n March 15 th (Wednesday) about 10~12 MBA students from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon are coming down to Microsoft for a networking session. To my knowledge, we dont do this normally at Microsoft - neither did as a Tepper Student ever
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A launch here at MS is a big deal. Not only does it mean mind-numbing work that makes you sing praises of Red Bull and caffeine but it also showcases the need for super-collaboration across groups. And as with all collaboration arise interfacing issues
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Talk about Killer apps - this one is da bomb. Zillow.com takes in your address and spits out the evaluations of the houses in and around your locale all this on a really cool Satellite/Hybrid Map. Love it. Thanks to Business2.0 to point me towards this
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True to form - Google released its Desktop Search 3 beta tonite - 2 hrs ago, while I was having dinner. And yes the launch was through its Blog . The new version is loaded with features that I have seen some internal beta versions of some tools that MSN
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Context: Its a week to "Launch Date" as the entire team here is heads-down burning the midnite flourescent lamps ( what with the oil prices these days ). Along comes this idea of launching with some 'product-group style' fan-fare and having the Ship-It
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Two Indians, who were among the co-founders of web database company 'Junglee', hope their deep search technology Kosmix can improve upon Google's one-size-fits-all approach with categorization. Currently they have categorizations along 3 lines - Health
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A refocus of projects, priorities, expertise and teams happens very often in the corporate world. Microsoft is no different and I realised it was my turn when my boss walked over and said "It's Time". Well it wasnt exacty as dramatic as that, she did
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3 days to SuperBowl XL and the team I support is playing the team of the city I live in. This cartoon that I saw today pretty much supports the story that we keep hearing about the Steeler Football - trying to play the Seahawks! Just decked a new Steelers
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Time for the Happy dance. A 2006 Tepper School Business (at Carnegie Mellon) just got his Microsoft Hire call and we are all excited. Woo Hoo.
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So my first "Ship" at Microsoft is in 2 wks - hence my relative absence from blogging. In 2 wks - The Microsoft Risk Assessment Program for Security will have been "SKU-ed" and released to the field. Enough of random rambling - on to the topic - my presentation-coach
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