Bob Visse is the GM of Product Management and was one of the people behind the new MSN redesign. Some of the new features include the integration of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Live. MSN is moving toward offering more localized content, including headlines and links that appeal to your specific demographic, combined with a tighter integration with Bing that offers readers links to things like local restaurant reviews and ratings. With many new partners such as Hulu and National Geographic, MSN is also offering more video content. Page load time was also whittled down, giving readers a snappier experience.
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Windows Phone 7 AP Reader: MIX 2010 Keynote Address
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AP worked with Microsoft on a rich news reading experience to serve as a launching point for AP Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series this year. A panoramic user experience incorporates news, social networks and photos as a way for people to select the newsmakers that interest them.
March is Women in Technology Month. We kick off the festivities on Channel 9 with a great conversation with an industry thought leader in interactive user experience design and architecture.
Meet Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, which focuses on software and services that are centered on social connectivity, real-time experiences, and rich media. Lili’s a big fan of and active participant in social communication and the interactive design of social computing on the web.
Lili talks to @ritzy and @Carmine007 about her tenure at Microsoft which started in 1995. Lili is another shining example of a successful woman in technology, but more importantly her full time job consists of both pushing the envelope of social interaction and the inventing new experiences for social computing. Push on, Lili and team!
Outlook Social Connector Announcement
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Back in October I told you about the launch of our Outlook Social Connector product, which gives Outlook the ability to aggregate all your social communication into one place. Here, Dev stops back by the studio to tell us about the latest announcement: the availability of the LinkedIn connector and new Outlook integration with Facebook and MySpace.
With LinkedIn you’ll be able to see the statuses and photos of colleagues, and any changes they make to their contact information will be synced to Outlook so it’s always current. You can also add new people to LinkedIn right from Outlook. You can get started by downloading the Office 2010 Beta, then downloading Outlook Social Connector, and then heading over to LinkedIn to download this connector.
Keep track of the latest Office news by watching the Office blog, or follow the Office twitter @Office2010. You can follow Dev at @DevBala, or follow me @LarryLa.
Social Web Experience for Internet Explorer
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Today a new experiment comes out of Redmond in the form of a new toolbar for Internet Explorer that analyzes the web pages you are looking at and applies what it sees to your social networks. This means the proper nouns and contextual references in the sites you’re looking at are matched up to the things your friends might be talking about. So if you’re browsing a movie review, you may see what a friend wrote about that movie as an inline contextual update.
Emre Kiciman and CK Wang from Microsoft Research joined us at the Channel 9 studio to talk about the Social Web toolbar and how it works. You can download the Social Web Experience Toolbar for IE here.