Everybody excited for the Olympics? Me too. A number of teams here at Microsoft are partnering with NBC Sports to bring you the highlights and vid eos - for more details, see the media alert . Here's the Zune specific portion from the alert: Zune. On Aug. 8, Zune Marketplace will kick off a series of daily 2008 Olympic Games videos from NBC Sports, giving viewers special on-the-go access to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. For approximately 99 cents–$1.99 per episode (with post-Games content...

Now anyone can create links right into Zune Marketplace or Zune Social: find the deep-link tool here . In the tool, you'll be able to search for artists, albums, podcasts, playlists or videos, and have a link automatically generated. Check the search I did for Tokyo Police Club , this will take you to their page within Zune Marketplace: Have fun!

The Zune team and I produced a series of videos meant to highlight the four areas of Zune this year: Device, Social, Software and Marketplace. These were originally meant for journalists and folks in the media, but I thought you’d be interesting in seeing them. In each of the videos, we asked different folks within the Zune organization to talk freely about their experience on the Zune team, what they tried to accomplish, and the rationale behind some key product features. We have a few hundred folks...

It's November 13, 2007 (5:20 am here in Seattle) and the Zune Software, Zune Social, Zune Marketplace and - most importantly to many of you - the Zune firmware update is now live. If you haven't yet, go to Zune.net and download it! Once you're on the Zune Social, drop me a line! (my card - http://social.zune.net/member/Cesarisok )