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Ashish Jaiman's Windows Live Messenger IM Control + Presence API Screencast at Channel9

Posted Monday, December 31, 2007 1:35 PM by alogan
In this screen cast I will talk about Windows Live Messenger control , and show you how to host it on your web site, I will also demonstrate the usage of the new presence API . To find more information • http://dev.live.com • http://www.dotnettikihut.com/ Read More...
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Contoso ISV Quick App localized into Chinese zh-CN

Posted Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:36 PM by alogan
The Microsoft IPG ( international product group... i think ) has extended Contoso ISV into Chinese - and made it easy for any other languages. Using a mix of resource (.resx) files and new images they quickly applied the localization/globalization capabilities. Read More...
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Calling the Presence API from managed code - Animaonline Windows Live Presence Wrapper

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 3:50 PM by alogan
I was cruising Codeplex today and found this server-side (or client side... which isn't allowed by the Terms of Use) library for calling the Presence API . Pretty cool - although we would recommend calling the JSON end point via Script Sourcing ( <script Read More...
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Way cool project on Codeplex - Community Server Windows Live Addons

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 3:24 PM by alogan
Nice scoop at LiveSide - Nick Brown ( Community Server guru ) has created a codeplex project - www.codeplex.com/CSLive dedicated to Community Server Windows Live Addons. This project aims to provide Community Server Controls and Add-ons to support the Read More...
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Just when you thought you were safe because your boss was on holidays - BAM!

Posted Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:38 PM by alogan
the dangers of working offline - 35 emails in a couple of minutes. Read More...
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Ashish Jaiman's Windows Live ID Screen-cast on Channel9

Posted Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:20 PM by alogan
Ashish Jaiman from the US ISV team has done a screen-cast on Windows Live ID. The Windows Live ID service (formerly known as the Passport Network) is an identity and authentication system that you can use with your own Web site or client application. Read More...
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More Panoramas from Brisbane

Posted Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:38 AM by alogan
I went home (Brisbane) for Christmas and my sister Elea (lives in New York) was back too. Elea has a super high quality camera and snapped quite a few photos from my apartment (level 15) and then we went to the roof (level 37) and took some city wide Read More...
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Quick Apps 5.0 statistics so far

Posted Tuesday, December 25, 2007 9:57 AM by alogan
Last week we released the 5.0 package of the Windows Live Quick Apps (included Tafiti SearchVisualization ). I just pulled the latest statistics. Downloads Source Code: 382 Release: 686 1068 CodePlex Last 7 days Page Views 12572 Visits 4476 Pages Per Read More...
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I'm Presenting at Office Dev Con

Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 5:41 PM by alogan
Office Developer Conference 2008 is happening February 10-13, San Jose California and I'll be there presenting a session on the Windows Live Platform. The details of the session are: Create new engaging experiences for Office users through Windows Live Read More...
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Community Project LiveNet - .NET Wrapper for WL Services v0.2 released

Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 4:57 PM by alogan
Scott mentioned on his blog that v0.2 of LiveNet is released. Grab the release here . The big change is the Silverlight Streaming API is now wrapped . From Scott's blog : As part of the release, I have included a sample application that shows just how Read More...
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Done - SharePoint & Tafiti Together

Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 10:18 AM by alogan
Kudos to Kevin Marshall of Clarity Consulting for being the first to blog SharePoint & Tafiti . Now all he needs to do is check the code into codeplex against this work item . From: Kevin Marshall Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:34 AM To: Angus Read More...
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Die beep! die!

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:07 PM by alogan
I've been doing a lot of think time tasks recently, which means I put in headphones; rock out and write/code etc. The problem with listening to music through your PC is you often cause a BEEP when typing like an invalid keystroke etc. Its super annoying Read More...
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Who will do it first? Tafiti Search Visualization on top of MOSS 2007 Search?

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:13 PM by alogan
There is a thread happening internally on a DL ( discussion list ) re. hooking up Tafiti Search Visualization to MOSS 2007 Search engine to provide a slick UX on top of Enterprise Search. The current thinking (unvalidated) is you could do the following: Read More...
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Popfly meets Office (popfly has the Office 2007 Ribbon)

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:43 PM by alogan
Back when I was Mr SharePoint (and kinda Office) 2007 in Australia I was all about the Ribbon. Good to see I can still talk about the ribbon now its in popfly. The new Mr Office Australia (Alistair) blogged about this . Technorati Tags: popfly , Office Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Tafiti Search Visualization Quick App

Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:22 PM by alogan
The team who developed Tafiti ( www.tafiti.com ) have allowed us to release it as a Windows Live Platform Quick Application . Kevin announced on dev.live.com here . Tafiti, which means " do research " in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Read More...
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New Quick App coming in a couple of days

Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 7:56 PM by alogan
There is a new Quick App coming in a couple of days. I don't want to spoil the surprise by announcing it but watch this space and codeplex . Read More...
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Check out the .NET wrapper for the Live Photo API

Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 12:55 PM by alogan
As mentioned on dev.live.com Scott (from Liveside ) and co have released LiveNet a .NET wrapper for the Windows Live Photos API - read the announcement . There will be more end points (datasources wrapped) but for now check it out . Read More...
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My presentation at Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) with David Dumler

Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 11:35 AM by alogan
Windows Live Platform: Making Better End User Experiences ( David Dumler & Angus Logan ) [Video] . [Slides] . [Transcript] Transcript Windows Live Platform – Making Better End User Experiences: David Dumler & Angus Logan David Dumler and Angus Read More...
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Silverlight Streaming Overview screencast by Mark Johnston

Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 11:11 AM by alogan
I love finding tech content coming from other people! Mark Johnston has done a screen cast (back in July) on Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live . Check it out! Read More...
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The only SharePoint Post I'll do for the rest of the year (Service Pack & Training)

Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:27 AM by alogan
SharePoint Service Pack 1 is available! Windows SharePoint Services v3 SP1 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 New advanced ECM training by the Ted Pattison group ECM401: Enterprise Content Management with SharePoint Server 2007 | Register Online Read More...
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What's up with the crazy December?

Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:41 AM by alogan
these are all individual meetings... daargh :) Read More...
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OMG! You must try this - my ski trip in SportsDo (3D mode)

Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:07 AM by alogan
Jonathan from SportsDo just emailed me reminding me about 3D move in VE to review my ski trip. Browse out to the SportsDo activity I recorded on my GPS logger I focus the activity down to just when I was on the mountain and then click at the beginning Read More...
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Want something cool built on Windows Live Platform but don't have time? tell me I'll get it built

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:50 PM by alogan
I'm lucky enough to have quite a few developers at my disposal (yay!). If you have a killer idea and want it built out in the form of a Windows Live Quick App (either new or enhancement to the existing ones) tell me! Should the feature request make the Read More...
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I'm the Featured Developer on Programmable Web - w00t!

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:45 AM by alogan
ProgrammableWeb rocks- they have a huge index of all APIs and lots of great Mashups - and I'm pumped I'm the featured developer and one of the Windows Live Quick Apps is the selected mashups. Read More...
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Skiing on the weekend and tracking using SportsDo

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:51 AM by alogan
I went skiing on the weekend with Chris Johnson & Ryan Duguid at Crystal Mountain in Washington - lots of fun. Beyond the great day of skiing, I captured the memory digitally using Windows Live goodness and my SportsDo kit . You can see the log of Read More...
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Adding Silverlight to SharePoint (with no coding)

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:41 AM by alogan
I just got an email from Ben Williams and he mentioned the Add Silverlight to SharePoint 2007 article on LiveSide where you create a custom JS file, create a custom web part (code it up) and BAM! Silverlight in SharePoint). Another option for this ( if Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: New capabilities in Messenger APIs (Smooth Sign Up for Sharing Presence, Presence API, Color configuration on IM Control)

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:42 AM by alogan
A while ago I announced the Windows Live Messenger IM Control on my blog - got to http://dev.live.com/Messenger/ The team have been doing some really cool stuff lately; We got some feedback: Its great but I can't have my users copying and pasting, how Read More...
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