venkatna's (Venkat Narayanan's) WebLog
Live.com News and technical details
300,000 servers in a container farm
This is cool - Microsoft has 300,000 servers in a container farm in the Chicago Data Center. It has...
Date: 05/08/2008
Live Search at the Daytona Endurance Race
I am a huge fan of Formula 1 racing, and don't follow races in the U.S. that much. However, I just...
Date: 01/22/2008
Windows Home Server - Need to get me one of these
I have been looking at getting the HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server. Right now, all my data is...
Date: 12/06/2007
List of all Microsoft Team Blogs
Brandon LeBlanc has gone to some trouble to get a list of all Microsoft Team Blogs in one location....
Date: 09/18/2007
Speeding up Web 2.0 applications
My experience with web 2.0 applications is limited to Live.com homepage (www.live.com) and...
Date: 09/10/2007
Tafiti - Silverlight based Search Engine
Microsoft has released a new experimental Search Engine at www.tafiti.com. This looks like it is...
Date: 08/22/2007
Windows Live starting to look better and better
This is exciting. Windows Live, for a long time has been confusing for a lot of people. Sites did...
Date: 08/09/2007
Performance of Web sites
Yahoo Developer Network has a good post that details a number of things you can and should do to...
Date: 08/05/2007
Crossroads Guitar Festival - on MSN
People that know me, know i am a huge Blues fan. I am particularly fond of the guitar. My favorite...
Date: 07/28/2007
MSN Health and Fitness gets cool new dashboard on Search results
It seems like Microsoft is putting the Medstory acquisition to good use. MSN Health and Fitness now...
Date: 07/11/2007
Keyword Suggestion Platform getting great reviews
Looks like the Microsoft Ad Lab research center folks have been busy. They released a new Keyword...
Date: 06/16/2007
Halo 3
Halo 3 marketing starts - https://www.halo3.com. This should be fun to follow. - Venkat
Date: 06/15/2007
PopFly and Live Search
PopFly now has blocks for Live Search. These are what are available now: Block Description Live...
Date: 06/15/2007
Visualizing Global Web Performance with Akamai
Akamai has released their web performance visualization tools to the public. This is a very...
Date: 06/11/2007
End of Start.com
I first started working on start.com two years ago, when we started with a small agile team and did...
Date: 05/17/2007
Live Search Club
This is interesting. We (Microsoft) seem to have released a new site where you can play games and...
Date: 05/14/2007
Where are the bears going?
SuperBowl! (in a sing-song voice) :) Have you ever had a feeling where you cannot wait for something...
Date: 02/03/2007
Collections and Templates
We have recently released some templates (basically a ready made page) and celebrity homepages that...
Date: 01/25/2007
Search for a good cause
Live Search has a couple of programs going on to enable you to contribute to charity. All you have...
Date: 01/23/2007
ASP.Net Ajax Ships
This is big news for a lot of people in the Ajax community. This is a free download. You can find...
Date: 01/23/2007
Seattle Wind storm
We have had a fun couple of weeks here in Seattle. We first had snow (heavy for Seattle) a couple of...
Date: 12/16/2006
Live.com Growing up
The product i work on, Live.com, is growing up. We now have a product tour. The product tour has...
Date: 12/02/2006
Finally, i can come out of a blogging coma!
We have finally shipped our V1 product. Live.com is officially out of beta. You can find more...
Date: 09/15/2006
A Very good list of web 2.0 companies
I have been meaning to blog this for a while - I found an exhaustive list of web 2.0 companies a...
Date: 07/01/2006
New Gadget Developer SDK
We have also released a new gadget developer SDK at microsoftgadgets.com. The SDK has a lot of good...
Date: 05/26/2006
New updates to Live.com
We just released some new updates to Live.com. Sanaz just posted about the changes in our team blog....
Date: 05/04/2006
some stats on Live.com
Live.com has been around for a little bit now. A lot of people have created gadgets for the site....
Date: 04/11/2006
Back from vacation
I had taken my paternity break recently and spent a lot of quality time with my daughter. It was a...
Date: 04/10/2006
Best time in a product cycle
We are getting pretty close to releasing another version of Live.com. I think this is about the best...
Date: 02/25/2006
Zillow.com - Awesome site
Zillow.com lets you find out how much your home is worth. This comes from Richard Burton, who was...
Date: 02/09/2006
Tiny Things and Saving Ewoks
Man, Rory just cracks me up. This was just about the best post i have read. I really havent written...
Date: 02/03/2006
Updates to the live.com page
We made some updates to the Live.com page late Friday. We are working on a much larger set of items,...
Date: 01/29/2006
Building a gadget for Live.com
I have been meaning to write about building gadgets for Live.com. The instructions are out there,...
Date: 01/11/2006
Bill Gates CES Keynote Vs Rose Bowl
This is unfair. The CES Keynote by Bill Gates starts at 6.30 PM PST. The webcast is available at...
Date: 01/03/2006
New release for live.com
We had a small release today (small on the UI changes, pretty significant in new support). We now...
Date: 12/15/2005
Google has gadgets now
Well, they are calling it modules. I have been spending some time looking at their documentation and...
Date: 12/14/2005
MSN Homepage and Validation
I just got an email from Dan about the MSN Homepage passing validation. I worked on this page for...
Date: 12/14/2005
Live.com Gadgets information
We had a release a couple days ago to sandbox gadgets and some other small bug fixes. An unintended...
Date: 11/26/2005
Changes that may break gadgets on live.com
We released a number of changes today that could potentially break some gadgets on live.com. We had...
Date: 11/23/2005
RSS Extensions, SSE and Microsoft
Ray Ozzie wrote about the SSE extensions to RSS that Microsoft is advocating. I am excited to see...
Date: 11/21/2005
Xbox 360
I stood in line for the last Xbox launch, but I am not doing that this time. I will still get one...
Date: 11/21/2005
Do you search on Live.com?
I was wondering about this. We have what i think is a cool feature on www.live.com, where we don't...
Date: 11/21/2005
Gadgets for Live.com
Sean Alexander has a posting today about all the gadgets available for Live.com. I am amazed by what...
Date: 11/08/2005
Live.com Oops bug
We released live.com and immediately got dinged for a lot of errors when reading feeds, among...
Date: 11/04/2005
Catching Up
Whoo. What a month! It has been a pretty hectic time for me lately. Good news is it is all coming to...
Date: 11/01/2005