Labs
I thought I’d take a moment to express my excitement about the kickoff of Live Labs, a new effort under the leadership of Gary Flake – a tremendously talented individual with many, many fascinating ideas about where the internet is headed. As described in Gary’s manifesto, Live Labs is structured for agility, and for turning ideas quickly into reality. It’s a rapid experimentation, incubation and advanced development group with a very direct connection into the product organizations.
I’d also like to welcome another person of great talent - Ashok Chandra - to Microsoft. Ashok’s kicking off a new Search Labs group focusing on taking search to the next level. Between these two efforts, I expect many cool projects to emerge in the realm of software and services. They’re going to be great places to work – whether in Mountain View or Redmond.
Finally, a quick update on the RSS Simple Sharing Extensions. The spec has been making good progress, and there has been an update to the draft spec introduced last fall. There’s also now some sample code available. Check out the tutorial, and join the conversation.
