MSN’s Bob Visse Talks About Homepage Redesign (Plus Microsoft’s Videos With Designer and Execs)
by Kara Swisher
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 8:14 PM PT
Here is a video interview BoomTown did with Bob Visse, GM of MSN Product Management today at Microsoft (MSFT) offices in San Francisco.
The new MSN homepage debuts tonight with a redesign cutting clutter, adding the ability to access both top social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, a local focus and with Microsoft’s new Bing search service everywhere.
But, as you can see from the logo above, the MSN butterfly logo remains, although it’s slimmed down too.
(Read all about the details here.)
The launch is the first major upgrade of the MSN main page in a decade, part of an overall rehaul that the software giant has been doing throughout its money-losing online services division.
Here’s Visse talking about the new MSN homepage, as well as two video interviews that Microsoft did with MSN Designer Wende Copfer, as well as MSN Corporate VP Erik Jorgensen, MSN U.S. head Scott Moore and Cyrus Krohn, who leads local programming strategy.
Here are the videos:
MSN’s Bob Visse:
MSN Designer Wende Copfer:
MSN Execs Erik Jorgensen and Scott Moore:
MSN’s Local Lead Cyrus Krohn:
Comments
Perhaps its because I’m a non-US user, but the videos for Wende Copfer and Cyrus Krohn don’t appear.
Also, you have to ask yourself how a hand held video of a talking head is better than an audio-only interview. Is online video the new Flash intro page? Click to continue and find out!
Posted by Graham Anderson at November 4th, 2009 at 1:41 amG:
There was a glitch at MSFT last night. The Wende one works now and they are working on the Krohn one.
Posted by Kara Swisher at November 4th, 2009 at 9:45 am