LiveSide - Interview blog

March 2006 - Posts

• Interview with Leah from the Messenger team

  Today I interviewed Leah, a Program Manager on Windows Live Messenger and one of the bloggers on the team blog: MessengerSays. As a result of the blog, Leah is in the process of switching to a more user-oriented role within the team, which hopefully will see user feedback having more influence over where the product goes. Leah doesn't give many hints as to what we can expect in the near future from Messenger, however i'll give you two reminders: #1 and #2. In case you don't understand the second one, take a look at the screenshot in this recent post on social networking. 0.00 Introduction 0.48 Why the dramatic change in the Beta UI? 2.05 Status icons 3.05 Windows Live integration 4.36 Leah's best new feature 6.05 Windows Live Messenger for developers 8.39 Messenger team blog 12.40 Leah's new role 16.20 Tabbed Chatting 16.57 Blog v Beta tester feedback 18.30 Leah's acceptance speech 18.47 How feedback can actually bring results 20.07 End Filesize: 9.17MB Download Interview Previous Interviews: Interview with Moz Hussain of Spaces Interview with Phil Holden #2   Posted Mar 16 2006, 03:46 PM by Chris with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, LiveSide, Messenger

• Interview with Moz Hussain of Spaces

  I interviewed Moz Hussain, a Product Planner for Spaces, last week, talking about how Windows Live will change Spaces, how it is changing the way the Spaces team works, and what to expect from Spaces in the coming months. We talked about some of the differences between Spaces and MySpace, about safety and security, and where Spaces fits in with IM and email as a communication service. You can listen to the interview here, on mp3. Be sure to check out Moz's blog: Moz at Work 00:59 How will Windows Live change Spaces? 03:05 How has your job changed because of Windows Live? 04:41 The three core pillars of Spaces 06:52 On payouts and rewards coming up in Spaces 09:22 Talking about MySpace 13:00 On building security and safety into Spaces 15:24 On codes of conduct 18:11 Where Spaces fits in communication services 21:36 Hiring and differentiation are the biggest challenges   Posted Mar 07 2006, 12:48 AM by Kip Kniskern with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, LiveSide, Spaces, Social Networking