venkatna's (Venkat Narayanan's) WebLog
Live.com News and technical details
Another Ajaxian Portal
I just found about another ajaxian portal - https://www.netvibes.com/. Looks quite good to me. It...
Author: venkatna Date: 09/18/2005
Start.com support for other browsers
I have been asked a number of times why we do not work properly in Opera and Safari. I have also...
Author: venkatna Date: 09/09/2005
Start.com Feedback
Feedback for start.com has been amazing. We have received tons of emails at...
Author: venkatna Date: 09/02/2005
Start.com Released
I had been working on start.com on and off about 4 - 5 months ago. I had moved onto another project...
Author: venkatna Date: 09/01/2005
XBox 360
I have been following news about Xbox 360 for a while now and know its size. I had not given it much...
Author: venkatna Date: 08/24/2005
Steve Squyres and Mars Rovers
There was a small talk today by Steve Squyres at Microsoft Research today. Steve is the lead science...
Author: venkatna Date: 08/18/2005
More shipping software from MSN
I like the direction we are going in. [:)] We have been slowly moving towards sites with more...
Author: venkatna Date: 08/02/2005
Microsoft and WaSP
As i was reading various blogs this morning, i came across this post. This is probably the most...
Author: venkatna Date: 07/21/2005
Weather on MSN
It looks like MSN just released a new weather channel. I love the new site. It has got great...
Author: venkatna Date: 07/21/2005
Disconnecting from work
I have had this blog for a while now and have been posting an entry about once every two weeks. I...
Author: venkatna Date: 07/01/2005
New blog for MSN.com and My MSN tips
Hi: A fellow MSN.com employee has started a new blog to talk about tips and tricks when using My MSN...
Author: venkatna Date: 06/23/2005
Software I have on my computer
I got a shiny new tablet (Toshiba M4) and spent some time installing all the software that I usually...
Author: venkatna Date: 06/15/2005
Web browser standards support - good article
This might be old news to most people, but I just found a cool site that compares the major browsers...
Author: venkatna Date: 06/11/2005
New start.com is now live
Here it is. What everyone has been waiting for. The new version of start.com is now live. Remember,...
Author: venkatna Date: 06/03/2005
New "Always Thinking" Blog
Have you ever wanted to find out how things work at MSN? Did you ever want to find out what it is...
Author: venkatna Date: 05/31/2005
Keyboard shortcuts
I like to use the keyboard as much as i can. I find I am more productive and it hurts less when I...
Author: venkatna Date: 05/27/2005
MSN, RSS, Ajax and Accessibility
Nate Weinberg over at blognewschannel is at the Syndicate conference has a write up about what MSN...
Author: venkatna Date: 05/19/2005
Agile Development with Scrum
Recently, I have been reading up on Scrum and i read Agile Software Development With Scrum by Ken...
Author: venkatna Date: 05/14/2005
IIS Webcast series now has its own website
If you are a web developer or test web sites or manage a web site, you might have seen the IIS some...
Author: venkatna Date: 04/26/2005
Our start.com dev is now blogging
The Developer working on https://start.com/1 and https://start.com/2, steve, is now blogging about it....
Author: venkatna Date: 03/21/2005
Take Back Your Life - Yet Another Review
I got a copy of Take Back Your Life by Sally McGhee a couple of weeks ago. I just finished reading...
Author: venkatna Date: 03/18/2005
Rounded corners without extra images
This is the best news I have heard in a while. I found this through 456 Berea Street. It lets you...
Author: venkatna Date: 03/15/2005
Announcing Start.com
The cat is out of the bag. We have been working on a new personalized start page. We are essentially...
Author: venkatna Date: 03/10/2005
Journey of Manking - a nice interactive map
I found this cool interactive map that shows one theory of human migration and development. This is...
Author: venkatna Date: 03/09/2005
IE Team is asking for feedback on Standards
This is a topic that is close to my heart. Standards support. Over on the IE Blog, Chris is asking...
Author: venkatna Date: 03/09/2005
Searching for information in OneNote files using MSN Desktop Search
I use OneNote a lot to take notes and keep track of information. I also use MSN Desktop Search to...
Author: venkatna Date: 03/08/2005
MSN Shopping Beta is here
Andrew blogged about the new MSN Shopping Beta. This page is a lot cleaner than the old one and...
Author: venkatna Date: 02/18/2005
MSN Homepage fixed for Mac IE
When we released the new version of the MSN Homepage on Feb 1st, we had some problems with rendering...
Author: venkatna Date: 02/16/2005
E-mail productivity tips
There is a great post over at 43 Folders about E-mail Productivity. If you use e-mail at work, you...
Author: venkatna Date: 02/15/2005
More information on the MSN Homepage redesign.
One of the developers on our team (Danboe) has a list of articles about how we went about converting...
Author: venkatna Date: 02/08/2005
Encarta Answers
John from Encarta has a great article on how Encarta works with MSN Search. They also give you a...
Author: venkatna Date: 02/04/2005
Amazing feedback
Wow. What a way to start blogging. I have not even had the chance to introduce myself and I have...
Author: venkatna Date: 02/02/2005
New MSN.com Homepage
We released the new MSN.com Homepage yesterday to match the new MSN Search release. I work on the...
Author: venkatna Date: 02/01/2005