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After three years and a bunch of awesome releases, I’m going to be leaving the Zune team. This will be my last post on ZuneInsider.

I want to take a minute and thank folks who have helped make working at Zune so thrilling – you, the community. Thanks to everybody who attended or organized a Zune meet-up. Thanks to everybody who blogged or wrote about Zune - whether you do it for a living or for a hobby, whether you did it in print, on a site, a forum, or even in an email to me. Besides my old co-workers, I’ll miss folks in the Zune community the most. It’s the strength of the community that makes me the most confident about Zune and the future. Sure, I know I know first-hand that the Zune team has cool things in store. But it’s the community that makes Zune what it is, the human energy.

We’ve got a great group of people who will still write for ZuneInsider, so you’re in good hands. The mission of this site will stay the same – all the latest on Zune from folks who work there.

As for what I’ll be doing, I’m going to take some time off and then weighing a few different options. In the meantime, I’ll be blogging – find me here cesarisok.blogspot.com. Naturally it won’ be a Zune blog, but I’ll write about things that interest me *other* than zune: music, technology, sneakers, faith, beer and more. And I’m also on the twitter – twitter.com/cesarmenendez And you can email me anytime – cesarisok@hotmail.com.

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Welcome to episode 19 of the Zune Insider audio podcast hosted by Cesar Menendez. Topics covered this week include: I sit down with Paul from the Zune team, and talk about the great new music in Zune Marketplace and get a sneak-peak at what’s coming out soon (1:44). There’s a recap of the new partnerships coming out of CES, with guests Drew, Dave, and Holly from the Zune team (10:36). I also cover 3 email comments and questions (19:16-end). Enjoy!

Download the (40 MB MP3) audio file directly here – Direct RSS feed – Zune Subscribe

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Welcome to episode 18 (audio) of the Zune Insider Podcast co-hosted by Cesar Menendez and Rob Greenlee. Most of this episode was recorded using VOIP software Gizmo Project because of a snow storm in Seattle and has less then ideal audio quality.

Topics covered this week include: Zune Insider over the holidays, New podcasts added to the Zune Marketplace (The Green Room, Xbox 360 Only Game Trailers, ManiaTV’s The Chuck Norris Show podcast), Winners announced for The Great Zune T-Shirt and Laptop Sticker Giveaway (Winners: Jock01, WJohn, Sraf, Inflamed Kevola – send Cesar your addresses to askzune at microsoft.com).

Joining us for our guest segment is Zune Insider blogger Paul Davidson, Lead Video and Original Content Producer for Zune and he talks about coming Holiday TV Show/Video Store .99 cent sale deals (MTV’s The Hills, G4 X-Play, LOGO’s Rick and Steve) in the Zune Marketplace (7:40-15:00). We also discuss 4 email comments and questions (16:30-end). Visit the ZuneInsider.com blog. (22:25 min – December 18th, 2008). Visit Zune.net

Download the (15 MB MP3) audio file directly here – Direct RSS feed – Zune Subscribe

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Welcome to episode 17 (audio) of the Zune Insider Podcast co-hosted by Cesar Menendez and Rob Greenlee. This audio episode was recorded the Zune building on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA.

Topics covered this week include: Top 25 Podcasts on Zune for December ’08, The Great Zune T-Shirt and Zune white laptop decal giveaway contest and we speak with the ever-popular Zune Product Manager Jessica Zahn, she discusses our new 3.1 feature “Like Minded Listeners”. We also discuss 4 email comments and questions. Visit the ZuneInsider.com blog.

Visit Zune.net (26:19 min).

Download the (18 MB MP3) audio file directly here – Direct RSS feed – Zune Subscribe

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Welcome to episode 16 (audio) of the Zune Insider Podcast co-hosted by Cesar Menendez and Rob Greenlee. This audio episode was recorded the Zune building on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA.

Topics covered this week include: G4 TV’s new Human Wrecking Ball video podcast (full episodes in video store) and we are joined by Steve Levy, Program Manager for ZuneOriginals.net. He talks about creating the ZuneOriginals store and adding many new Zune Originals engraved artwork to the website for customers to add to the back of Zunes for holiday gift giving season. (4:10-11:00). Visit Zune.net (16:17 min).

Download the (11 MB MP3) audio file directly here – Direct RSS feed – Zune Subscribe

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