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  • 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…

  • iPhone 3.0 vs. Windows Mobile 6.1 for Exchange users

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    I started this post a few months ago but I decided to give Apple another chance with iPhone OS 3.0.  Now that 3.0 is out and I’ve had a chance to use it for a while, I still conclude that the iPhone doesn’t quite cut it for hardcore Exchange users who don’t want to carry…

  • 800 messages processed per day

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    Over the past few days I’ve held off on emptying my deleted items folder in Outlook to get a better sense of the number of messages I “process” per day.  The average over the past three days with very little varyance per day was 800 per day.  Granted this does include RSS feed posts I…

  • Trends I am watching

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    Prefab green building The rise in the “undeclared / independent” policial party The mobile phone as THE device (phone, email/text, video camera, music/video player, still camera, wallet, display/projector, gps, computer) IP everything Boxed wine More content in smaller chunks China

  • Tribal Workers – Am I one?

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    Those two people who follow my blog have probably given up on following it since I haven’t posted in ages.  The caltrain love poem didn’t happen and instead I’ve been having a very time consuming relationship with my work now that I am responsible for the applications, user experience and server components (metadata mostly) for…