Bing Blogs - 133

I joined Bing Design team in April of this year (2011) as a user experience and visual designer. The design team works directly with user research and editorial to create the visual presentation and user experience of bing.com (including, that beautiful, interactive, home page). For 2 years prior to joining Bing, I was a contract designer for Microsoft’s Interactive Experience Business creating information + publication design – ...
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Coming out of college studying finance and marketing, I realized I didn’t want to go the typical investment banking route after talking to mentors and friends that had gone that way.  I instead wanted to land at a place that taught me what it took to actually build a product with enormous reach and to run a business around it.  So after graduating from the University of Michigan, I ended up at Microsoft in the Finance Rotation...
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My name is Lisa, and I am the test manager for the Ad Platform Business Intelligence team.  I have been with Microsoft for 7 years and have been with the Ad Platform BI team for the past three and half years.  I worked in the Exchange Server team for 4 years since joining Microsoft. Prior to that, I worked in IBM as a Java JDK developer for 5 years in Austin, Texas.   I currently manage the Ad Platform Business Intelligence...
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Hey all NYC startups and entrepreneurs, I’m in the city that never sleeps this week working with your ilk (and desk surfing wherever people are kind enough to let me – especially the good folks at WeWorkLabs from where I’m currently writing). There are a couple of events I’d like to tell you about if you’re in an empire state of mind: Wed, Aug17: Entrepreneurs Roundtable #38: http://er38.eventbrite.com/ At the MS...
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Our goal at Bing Shopping is to help you find what you’re looking for in the fewest steps possible.  That starts with selection.  Over the past year, we have expanded the number available products by five times and added top brands like Nordstrom, ESPN, Tom’s Shoes, Sony Store, Babies R Us and Dick’s Sporting Goods.  Today, we are rolling out a set of features that will help you make shopping decisions even faster....
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  We don’t share everything about the internals of how Bing operates but we have publicly shared with the world that Bing has its own version of Hadoop (also similar to Map Reduce/Google File System) that we call Cosmos and shared that we have multiple Petabytes of data on this data cloud.   One of the interesting things to think about is what testers can do to improve quality when they have massive amounts of real world data....
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If you manage data sources in Bing Maps then you know we’ve made several updates to the Bing Maps Account Center and the REST Web Services in the last few weeks. 
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The Creative Asset Management UI is working on re-architecting the front-end of our storage platform to support the fast changing nature of the advertising business. Our vision is to enable our users to rapidly innovate on new ad products, targeting multi-channel and multi-device, from web, mobile, all the way to the future such as Windows 8. Leveraging the latest ASP.NET MVC and jQuery technologies, our system will be able to accept new ad...
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Today, we’re happy to announce that we have added mall maps and map search to Bing for Mobile Browse. You may recall that we initially announced mall maps for the desktop last December. Since then we’ve been listening to your feedback and have been hard at work growing our coverage. We’re excited to share that as of today, our collection of more than 400 shopping malls is available from m.bing.com making it easier to get where...
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One of the benefits of traveling with your family is getting out and experiencing something new. Whether it’s exploring a new destination, trying a new food or experiencing a new culture, travel is both fun and educational for kids. With just a few weeks of summer left, there’s still time to squeeze in one more trip before heading back to school. Bing Travel guest blogger and family travel expert Anne Taylor Hartzell uncovered three...
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