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    March 10

    FolderShare gets a facelift

    It's been almost 2 1/2 years since FolderShare was acquired by Microsoft.  When we (the FolderShare team) joined Microsoft, we didn't have any idea of how interesting (and challenging) the journey would be.  You only need to look back at all the changes (here, here, & here) that have taken place in the MSN - Windows Live group at MS during that time to get an idea of what we encountered.

    I'm really excited about this release.  FolderShare was in bad need of a new paint job.  The UX now looks polished and like it belongs with the other Windows Live services.  We've even worked on the usability to (hopefully) make it easier to create libraries and get started with the service.  I'm glad to see we're continuing to support the Mac client.  Unfortunately we weren't able to release a new OS X client today with the updated website and Windows client, but I would expect to see a new and improved Mac client later this year.

    While Tom & Michael (two of my colleagues at FolderShare) no longer work at the company, I know they're as excited as I am about having Microsoft -finally- ship this updated version.  Congrats to the FolderShare team on an awesome release!  Can't wait to see what in store for the service over the next year.



    June 28

    Windows Live Folders has shipped!!

    The project I've been working on at Microsoft has finally been released.  It's still in beta and if you missed the first window to get in, add your name to the list as we'll gradually be opening it up over the coming months.  We're planning to add some pretty cool features in future versions, so stay tuned.
     
    Here's a photo of our team during the launch.  That's me in the background with the white shirt.  And of course... I had to share this with a Live Folder.
    May 12

    "Live Folders" made it to the top of Techmeme

    Glad to see the blogosphere is still eagerly awaiting "Live Drive" or "Live Folders" or whatever its called these days.
    Check out the coverage and comments on TechCrunch.
    January 12

    Keep iTunes in sync with FolderShare

    One of things I use FolderShare for is to keep my music in sync between my different computers.  If I buy a song from the iTunes store at home I want to be able to listen to it at work without having to copy it to flash drive, email, etc.  That's where FolderShare is great, but what isn't great is that even after all the new songs have synced between the computers you still have to manually tell iTunes to look for new music.  This has always been the one hiccup in an otherwise perfect "multi PC music managment solution", until now. 
     
    I read about a utility called iTLU (iTunes Library Updater) this now takes care of that annoying need to manually update your library.  You can download iTLU here.  I haven't had time to install this yet myself so I can't speak directly how well it works or not, but it sounds like just the thing I need.  I plan to play around with it this weekend.