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Round Table Discussion with Live Search

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:21:00 GMT

Last week LiveSide sat down with some people from Live Search to talk about a wide range of topics, including the switch from MSN Search to Live Search, the Windows Live name and brand, migrating MSN Search users and acquiring new ones, Live Local, QnA, Google and Page Rank, and a lot more.

My apologies if I spell some names wrong, but the participants were:

Neil Freeland:      Marketing Programs and Acquisition
Laura Kern:         User Experience
Sebastian Gard: Evangelism for Live Search
Sean Nordberg:   Group Program Manager,Windows Live Local Search
and thanks to Kevin Briody from Windows Live for putting it all together.

A couple of links referenced in the discussion:

Nicholas Carr: Beyond Question - Oct 2, 2006
Comscore: Local Search Continues to Gain Momentum - Sept. 28, 2006

I broke up the interview into two parts to make it a bit easier to download, or you can listen to the whole thing at once:

Download the full Interview (20mb mp3 - 44 minutes)
Download Part One (8.5mb mp3 - 18 minutes)
Download Part Two (11.5mb mp3 - 26 minutes)

(edit: fixed links to point to direct download)

Interview with Leah from the Messenger team

Chris — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:46:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Interview with Moz Hussain of Spaces

Kip Kniskern — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Talking With Torres

Harrison Hoffman — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:47:00 GMT

I sat down with Mike Torres , Lead Program Manager for MSN Spaces to talk about the recent Spaces 10.5 release. Here's some key points in the interview: 0:00 Introduction 1:21 History of Spaces 3:15 Why the delay? 6:50 What's your favorite new...(read more)

Interview with Phil Holden, Director of Windows Live

Chris — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:30:00 GMT

This is a short interview I did with Phil talking about Windows Live and where it is heading in the next year. Summary: 0.00 Introduction 0.56 Windows Live announcement and progress through 2006 2.49 Windows Live Sessions aims 4.50 Windows Live vs MSN...(read more)