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Friday, August 31, 2007 4:06 PM

For what it's worth, it was worth all the while...

After six years at Microsoft, I’ve decided that it is time to move on with my career and my life. I’ll be taking a role at a software startup that appeals to both my passion for the user revolution on the internet and my desire for a smaller, more personal
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Friday, July 20, 2007 2:35 PM

Yet another blog post about Facebook

Has any company garnered as much attention in such a short-term as Facebook? Yeah, you can suggest YouTube or Skype, but Facebook went from hot to scorching hot in the course of a few months. Rupert Murdoch, the man who owns MySpace, showed some major
Posted by SandyK | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:24 PM

The Customer Isn't Always Right

The business mantra for years has always been "The Customer Is Always Right". I recall reading business school case studies about how comapnies like Nordstrom were phenomenal is how they made sure customers were extremely satisfied--going to unimaginable
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Monday, April 23, 2007 1:19 PM

Rumsfeld's Dilemma and the Community Cure

When I talk about the value of community for developers, I've been known to quote what I've come to describe as "Rumsfeld's Dilemma". As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:43 PM

Microsoft Community Applications and Services: The Next Wave

We hear a lot of feedback about how the forums and blogs should work. And I mean A LOT. Whether it's internal or external, people always have opinions about how to make them better. I prefer to think that the feedback is proof of how valuable these services
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Friday, March 30, 2007 3:24 AM

The Death of the Smart Client is Greatly Exaggerated

I was watching a great presentation recently from a Berkeley professor who came to speak to a bunch of senior people in my division. He threw out a lot of interesting sayings, but my favorite one may have been "the most dangerous three words in the investment
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:09 PM

Thank You Teamprise!

While CodePlex has had a pretty good run, we've gotten some flack for having only offering Team Explorer to work with our source control system. Personally, I use it on the internal CodePlex and it has positives and negatives. That said, there's nothing
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:46 PM

Regis Philbin and The Link Between Reality TV and YouTube

I spent my December break reading "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. OK, maybe I was a little late to that book, but better late than never. While I can't say the book told me any specific fact that I didn't know, it's ability to wrap up the last
Posted by SandyK | 3 Comments
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:31 PM

An Ode To GotDotNet

About two years ago, I stepped into this role with a primary responsibility being to help get GotDotNet back on its feet. As the first Microsoft community for .NET, GDN held a dear place in the hearts of many. However, it had clearly fallen on hard times
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:37 PM

Oh Boise! My Second Code Camp

Last weekend, four developers from my team and I headed over to Boise, Idaho for my second code camp. Having never been to Boise, I was almost more curious about the town than the Code Camp itself. After all, my image of Idaho was rural farmland, potatoes,
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:13 AM

Microsoft: Open 24 Hours

I've always joked to my wife that if I wasn't married, I'd probably get a cot and sleep at Microsoft on the nights when I really got into my work. Well, thanks to the latest Seattle weather debacle, I ended up doing an all-nighter at Microsoft. Herein
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Monday, January 08, 2007 2:43 PM

The game of 'Tag' in the 21st Century

OK, apparently there's this meme thing going around where people are tagging one another to find out five things that most readers wouldn't know about the blogger. I think it's a pretty cool idea and now that I've been tagged by three people ( Andrew
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:59 AM

Peanut Butter Jelly Time? (Part II)

Following up on the Yahoo memo, I found it interesting to read the section regarding the effort level at Yahoo. I believe the larger your company grows, the harder it is to get everybody driving hard--especially at the levels of a startup. For as much
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:12 AM

Peanut Butter Jelly Time? (Part I)

The shakeup at Yahoo is a fascinating reflection of the life and times of a tech company. Now many consider Yahoo a competitor to Microsoft and I have no interest in disparaging their company, but this is an interesting business case study and there is
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Friday, December 01, 2006 1:09 PM

Dude, you got a Zune?

Why yes, I did. In the words of Jim Newkirk, I "drank the Kool-Aid" and picked one up. Rarely have I seen such a fascinating launch of a product from Microsoft--it's certainly the most interesting in my 5+ years here. The first thing everyone does is
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