This Week on Channel 9 | The Coffeehouse

jeffsand
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We released a special edition of This Week on Channel 9 today. As requested (thanks Minh) in this edition, we talked through our survey results and our plans for how we will adjust based on the feedback.

It is a long video (60 minutes, sorry), but I think it does a good job explaining where we want to head with Channel 9 in the future.

Thanks again everyone for all the support!

longzheng

Thanks for featuring my comment regarding the "dilemma of choosing a community" and look forward to all the changes you'll be implementing. Sounds like very much a big step in the right direction. Smiley

SlackmasterK
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9 += 10;

Nice.

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

Nice overview of what we can expect. Moving 10 to 9 is a good thing. I sometimes visit 10, but not as much as I'd like to. I'm a niner, not a tenner Wink

SlackmasterK
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In reply to TommyCarlier

#Jun 27th @ 1:07 PM

Honestly I visited a few times, but was quickly turned off by the personality of those girls on the 10 videos. The energy is way too far to the bouncy side and not enough to the "this is cool stuff" side... IMHO...

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to SlackmasterK

#Jun 27th @ 1:11 PM

Those girls are already on Channel 9: Tina presents the awesome “History of Microsoft” series, and Laura and Max (one of the girls Wink ) host “Ping”.

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

This 9 Revolution is a big deal, why isn't it on the C9 blog yet?

jeffsand
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In reply to SlackmasterK

#Jun 27th @ 1:22 PM

good catch. we thought the video stood on its own, but I think we should have something in text. I'll put something up sometime over the weekend.

Bas
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In reply to jeffsand

#Jun 27th @ 3:37 PM

That would be good, because I've watched the video and still have trouble grasping what exactly the revolution entails apart from merging certain C10, C8, and C4F content into Channel 9. I could watch the video again, but that would mean another hour. Some text summary would be nice.

jeffsand
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In reply to Bas

#Jun 28th @ 3:40 AM

Posted to the blog -- http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C9Team/The-Future-of-Channel-9/

As I mentioned in the video in the coming weeks, we'll go deeper with you all on the user experience, what we'll be doing on content and more.

Fun times. Viva Channel 9!

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Jeff,

I hope that you get to do what you say you want to do. What I mean is that today's message is consistent with that in the "Who are we?" video. I don't think you wanted to deliver a sub-par product prior to and during the C9V4 roll-out. But you definitely did. The site is blazing fast today, though. I'm very impressed.

Duncan,

You give me too much credit on the feedbacks. Certainly there were many other Niners who gave helpful feedbacks.

jeffsand
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In reply to Minh

#Jun 29th @ 7:22 PM

Interesting point Minh. In thinking back to filming last week, it did feel a lot like the original Who We Are video where we framed what we wanted to create with Channel 9. There has been a lot of good and fair feedback from plenty of people over the years, some that we've gotten to, others not.

We're hoping that by focussing much more on Channel 9 as a single place, it will allow us to incorporate much more of that same feedback. Also this sam focus is a key contributor to how we were able to improve the performance of the site . We will continue to do work on reliability/performance so that we have a solid foundation for the new release.

In a couple of weeks we'll do a deep dive around the UX / Wireframes with Nishant (we're looking to do this the week of July 20) that should help explain more.

But, for now we wanted to get out in front of it with you all and explain where we're headed so that we don't catch folks by surprise.

leeappdalecom
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In reply to jeffsand

#Jun 30th @ 10:52 AM

I still have to open FireFox on my Mac to view Channel 9 please please fix it for Safari I keep getting:

Bad Request - Request Too Long

HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long.

Come on whoever fixes it ill buy them a beer.

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In reply to leeappdalecom

#Jun 30th @ 11:44 AM

Cleared cookies recently?

leeappdalecom
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In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Jun 30th @ 11:53 AM

Yeah that works but as soon as I sign in I get the error again Sad

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In reply to leeappdalecom

#Jun 30th @ 12:12 PM

Odd. I'm posting from Safari 4 (4.0.1 on OSX) right now.

leeappdalecom
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#Jun 30th @ 12:22 PM

Are you using C9 login or Live ID?

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In reply to leeappdalecom

#Jun 30th @ 12:30 PM

C9 login.

leeappdalecom
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In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Jun 30th @ 12:34 PM

It's gotta be something to do with Live ID then, because that's the point it goes pete tong.

jamie

sounds too good to be true...
i think we need some staff motivational posters...

PDF (for printing) here: http://www.channel9.ca/rev/c9-aliens.pdf

Smiley

jeffsand
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In reply to jamie

#Jun 30th @ 3:50 PM

Nice. I've posted these up on a section of the big board in our hallway where my team shares stuff.

Channel 9 Promo Posters by Jamie by you.

Channel 9 and Mix Online Sharing Board by you.

If you want to create a poster to help motivate us, add them to this thread. Wink Please keep them safe for work as we have other people and customers who walk down the hall.

jamie

In reply to jeffsand

#Jun 30th @ 4:44 PM

Wink

edit: what we need is a spinning 9 -(revolution/revolving)
Reminds me of that old ibm commercial "but i can make our logo spin"

can anyone or does anyone know how to spin that 9 from the tshirt designs?

maybe 3d-ize it ... chrome-ize it?
i suck at animation .. but actually a revolving 9 ani sums it up?
would look good above word revolution anyway...

JoshRoss
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In reply to jamie

#Jun 30th @ 3:50 PM

I'm not sure how the alien fits with the revolution them, but somehow it does. I like the matrix color theme, the c:\del.bat, and the idea that C9 has a ROI. That last one made me snort.