in Query: Laura Foy
Occupation Title: Video Manufacturing Goddess (aka Senior Technical Evangelist).
Laura, it’s hard to miss you online here at Microsoft and beyond. I’ve seen you in everything from an interview with Craig Mundie about NUI to a Justin Timberlake spoof music video clip about Xbox. Tell me about your role here.
I host and produce stories about what’s going on with Microsoft and technology. I have a weekly show called Ping!, I share breaking technology news,
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I recently saw the award-winning documentary We Live in Public about internet pioneers and I noticed you in a couple of scenes. Tell me about how you got in on the ground floor of online media.
I had just graduated from NYU. The late 90s .com bubble was in full swing and a friend told me about a work at Pseudo.com. The career was just cataloging tapes and basic stuff like that, but I was bartending at the time, so I was like “sure, I’ll give it a try.”
you already big into technology at that point?
Well, I had an email account, but that’s about it. No, seriously, I was coming from more of a film and editing angle and Pseudo – under the vision of Josh Harris – was doing live streaming media. Most people didn’t even know what it was at that point. I went from cataloging tapes to becoming one of the main producers and on-camera anchors on Pseudo. an amazing experience: very experimental and eye-opening, but it was a little too far ahead of its time. The advertising wasn’t really set up and the bandwidth wasn’t there yet.
Tell me about what happened after the bubble burst.
I was a life-long New Yorker to that point, but I moved to LA to set up G4 along with some of my former colleagues. I was hesitant to move to LA, but loved it once I got there. I produced and hosted a show called G4tv.com along with Tina Wood. G4tv.com pushed the envelope on TV by melding live chat rooms with a show about gaming and the technology of gaming.
And then you came to Microsoft?
As happens with most shows, G4tv.com started to run out of steam after about 5 years. Microsoft evangelist Jeff Sandquist had seen the show and recruited me up to Redmond. At the time,
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And Tina Wood came along with you?
Yes,
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