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Author: ShanV

  • How to make your cell phone last all day at a festival

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    Unfortunately, all day music festivals tend to take place in locations which do not have cell phone towers nearby. When there are towers, they are often overwhelmed by the sheer number of people who are all equipped with cell phones in the vicinity. When your phone cannot successfully reach a tower, it often consumes more…

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same

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    With all the buzz lately about Metawatch Strata, Pebble, Google Glasses and others, I couldn’t help but dig up this old Microsoft SPOT video — circa 2003. I wish I could post the pitch video I did for my project before leaving Microsoft.

  • I am hiring

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    Come work with me at eBay! We’ve got some job openings on my product management team and also on the software development and QA / Test teams that I work with.  My current two open product management positions are below: Product Manager – Electronics Sr. Product Manager – Electronics Quality Engineering: Staff QE Engineer QE…

  • New beginnings at eBay

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    My work is an important part of my life – after all, like many people I spend more time working than doing anything else.  When I started thinking about what I wanted to work on after TV software for cable/telco carriers at Microsoft, I established a set of criteria that I would use to measure…

  • My farewell to Microsoft

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    Leaving Microsoft was a tough decision but it was time for a change for me after my final attempt to get traction on my new product idea I had been pitching internally was unsuccessful.  I had spent a good portion of the year leading up to this decision considering what would be the right next…

  • 10 Years at Microsoft

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    This past week marked my ten year anniversary at Microsoft.  I never would have guessed that answering the call to join the Mac Internet Explorer team would have led to the long adventure my time at Microsoft has been.  Heck, I came in as a Mac guy and now I’m a PC.  What’s even more…

  • Microsoft, Innovation and Products

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    Dick Brass, a former Microsoft executive, published an opinion piece in today’s New York Times which has gotten a lot of buzz on the web.  Microsoft’s CVP of Corporate communications responded on the Official Microsoft Blog so I’ll let that speak for the official response from the company.  What follows is my personal take on…

  • WordPress is my new blog engine.

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    After running DasBlog for a while I decided to migrate to WordPress.  I’ll elaborate more when I’m done getting the permalink mappings and template updated.  Until then, sorry for the disorientation.

  • New Year’s Resolution time

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    It’s a little late, but I’m finally getting around to publishing my 2010 New Year’s resolution to my blog.  I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal “Act II” the past few months so my resolution is: Make three life-changing decisions this year with at least one by Feb 21. I’ve chosen to publish my…

  • Where to go for Iran coverage

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    There are a lot of developments in Iran over the past 48 hours and they have gotten little coverage from the US mainstream media.  While I would like to think that this is a turning point for the green movement there, I also fear that this is just the beginning of an extended period of…