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I'll be presenting @ Web 2.0 Expo - Take the best of Windows Live and Make it Yours!

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 7:46 PM by alogan
Windows Live Platform: Take the Best of Windows Live and Make it Yours Are you a web developer interested in attracting 400M+ engaged users with over 30 billion relationships? Need to access over four billion photos? Ever wanted to include instant messaging Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Ads Pilot (US only)

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:35 PM by alogan
Over on the SLS blog RemyP announced the SLS Ads Pilot - This is quite exciting - if you have great content, you can store and serve the video content, and now get paid! Below is the post : This spring we'll be launching a pilot program to offer turnkey Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Two way contact APIs with the top Social Networks and Windows Live - invite to WL from Facebook; invite to Bebo or facebook from Windows Live - SAFELY!

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:10 PM by alogan
We just announced @ dev.live.com Windows Live have partnered with the top SNs around the world to provide consumers a safe way to invite their friends from Windows Live to << insert social network >> and vice-verser. Inviting my Facebook friends Read More...
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Alien vs Predator - Scary - why not IM about it :) - using iBloks and Windows Live Messenger Library

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:16 PM by alogan
The team over at iBloks have delivered a solution for Fox to promote the Alien vs Predator Requiem DVD sale . This is built on the iBloks Video Messenger infrastructure, so when you are on the site watching video, you just click on the video - it takes Read More...
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Tafiti and SharePoint back together again

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:44 PM by alogan
During the latest release of the Tafiti Quick App we accidentally nuked some of the code which made Tafiti work with SharePoint. George Durzi ( Clarity Consulting ) has hooked this back up (I can tell because I get an RSS feed from the latest Check Ins Read More...
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New Virtual Earth 3D blog

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:39 PM by alogan
http://ve3d.spaces.live.com Welcome to the Virtual Earth 3D blog, dedicated to the sharing of information about the Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D environment as seen on the Live Search Maps site . Here we will strive to keep you abreast of the latest product Read More...
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A few updates for Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:53 AM by alogan
Remember MIX08? When we doubled Silverlight Streaming (the storage 4 to 10 GB, the max KBPS 700 to 1.4MBPS, the bandwidth instead of 1 million minutes (what did that mean?) - we now give you 5 TERABYTES of traffic PER MONTH!!!)!!! well here are a few Read More...
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Web IM is hot! - access 300m+ people and build your own UX w/ Windows Live Messenger.

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:17 PM by alogan
ReadWriteWeb just posted about WebIM being hot (caused by the recent Meebo valuation of ~ $200m w/ 29m users). They are right - Web based IM is hot! We are seeing a lot of interest in the Windows Live Messenger Library and the Windows Live Messenger IM Read More...
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The worst part about moving to the US

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:54 AM by alogan
the tax mess you leave behind... I mean - why would a country run a different calendar year for personal income tax as company income tax? craziness. Read More...
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GeorgeM gets his blog on re. Unified standards-based protocols and tooling for storage

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:55 AM by alogan
George Moore is the General Manager of the WL Platform team (runs a chunk of engineering); He has a super detailed post about AtomPub / Tooling and storage . Check it out Read More...
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Tool: detecting memory leaks in web IE + shrinking javascript

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:50 AM by alogan
I just saw a session (something about secrets of JavaScript libraries) with people from Dojo, JQuery, Prototype. there are a few random tools they have mentioned. 1) detecting memory leaks in Internet explorer - Drip : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ieleak Read More...
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SXSW Critical look at Open ID session - live random blogging

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:42 AM by alogan
Sidenote: check out the Windows Live ID federation whitepaper which may address a lot of the issues below OpenID attempts to solve the username/pwd problem the web needs SSO OpenID is a decentralized mechanism one organization owning the credentials has Read More...
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Please take my credentials. No really - take them!

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:18 PM by alogan
I just flew into Houston, TX on the red-eye from Seatac and I'm sitting in a starbucks waiting for my flight to Austin, TX so the writing my not be top of the pops but I wanted to rant a little. --- What bought this on? I saw a super SCARY STORY about Read More...
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Austin, TX - here I come - lets hook up and talk WL Platform / random stuff @ SXSW

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 2:49 PM by alogan
I got a phone call from Daryll McDade (runs Live Platform for the US) this morning saying: Angus, you really should be here! So I'm jumping the red-eye tonight to arrive at 0940 tomorrow morning; If you want to catch up and talk Live Platform email ( Read More...
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Photo Zoom sees the light of day

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:35 AM by alogan
Way cool that PhotoZoom was announced a few days ago as usual Liveside got the scoop . One of the first things I did when I moved to Redmond was a Steve Ballmer keynote demo @ Worldwide Partner Conference. Some sizzle we added to that keynote was to visualize Read More...
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Mix is done - i'm out.

Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 6:42 AM by alogan
My observations are geeks, deisgners, nerds, Microsoft employees, press, analysts, show girls, and dealers... everyone - had fun @ MIX08. There is a HUGE amount of recordings available online - you can go and check them out - and in a few weeks there Read More...
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Google ships a Contacts API... welcome!

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 9:21 AM by alogan
At MIX07 (about a year ago) we announced the Windows Live Contacts API . Last week we announced the Windows Live Contacts API is in beta (which means more stability, scalability and a go-live license). I'm super excited that Google announced their Contacts Read More...
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Missing MIX? - See the Adding IM to any Site session &amp; Developing with Windows Live Recordings ONLINE NOW!

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 5:06 AM by alogan
The difference between coming to MIX, and not being here are as follows: If you don't come: you may have less chance of getting arrested your liver will thank you you won't have to cleanse your soul when you leave Las Vegas you can PAUSE presentations Read More...
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KeijiK rocking the house with Windows Live Messenger Library and Silverlight 2 sample

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:37 AM by alogan
Steve Gordon built a full Silverlight demo application; He wrote the code in Silverlight 2 (i.e. you can code in C# or the other languages Silverlight 2 can be coded in); they basically took ScottGu's demo application and then enhanced it with WLML I Read More...
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MIX08 photos going straight up to Spaces from MIX via eye-fi

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:17 AM by alogan
my eye-fi card uploads straight to Spaces - check them out here http://anguslogantestspace01.spaces.live.com/photos/     lots of random photos Read More...
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MIX08 Keynote Braindump (Ray Ozzie)

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:34 AM by alogan
I'm sitting in the overflow room and it is overflowing. Ray Ozzie is on stage; his slides look interesting and have kinda cool (nice transparency) favorite line: Ad Based Economic Engine Content / Community / Commerce - showed a cool video of searching Read More...
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Transcoding in the sky with Silverlight Streaming

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:00 PM by alogan
Do you have media like *.mov files which Silverlight doesn't speak? Do you really really want that media in Silverlight? Do you have an abundance of bandwidth to push un-encoded files up to the cloud? Sick of melting your CPU to encode media? we can do Read More...
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FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Names) - a few dev environment tips.

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:07 PM by alogan
Thanks to Nikhil Kothari for some dev tips this morning - below is a summary --- Lots of our services require a FQDN (i.e. a name with a "." in it) - such as the Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication service ; or the Windows Live Messenger Read More...
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Prepping for MIX - the essentials on your demo machine(s)

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:54 AM by alogan
I build all my demos on my main laptop and then "copy" the code over to a demo laptop (which i rebuild clean for each show); By doing this I get a few things: redundancy if a laptop explodes tested my codebase on multiple machines get the deployment Read More...
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Windows Live - top of the pops on visitmix.com

Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:23 PM by alogan
The top of http://visitmix.com is all Windows Live baby! We released the details on 2 session : Adding Instant Messaging to Any Site (on Wednesday - straight after my session - Developing with Windows Live Platform) KeijiK will be going deep (way deep) Read More...
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New Windows Live Agent built in Spain (the first in Spanish).

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:56 PM by alogan
The Spanish are CRAZY about Messenger and Agents for some reason (like the Dutch). When I was in Madrid during October, I met with some developers building a pretty cool agent. It's now live - read about it here Or add iZ@psoe.es to your Messenger list. Read More...
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Built for comfort (and speed) : Microsoft Virtual Earth with IntelliSense in VS 2008

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:51 PM by alogan
Marc Schweigert has enabled JavaScript IntelliSense with Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft Virtual Earth Map Control .   You can check out his post and screencast here . Way cool! Read More...
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MSN Taiwan gives the IM Control some bling!

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 11:34 AM by alogan
The have just surrounded the IM control with really great visuals. Get your own IM control here Read More...
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How would you describe the Windows Live Platform in 100 words or less?

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:37 AM by alogan
I just had to give 100 words to the http://visitmix.com team to put a link on their site. --- This is what we came up with: The Windows Live Platform is focused on providing developers and businesses with everything they need to build on top of Windows Read More...
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Alex's summary of WL Platform update and his PHP hackery for Live ID Delegated Authentication

Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:02 PM by alogan
Alex is a cool guy from the Netherlands and he is hardcore into Windows Live Platform. If you ever post a question to the Windows Live ID MSDN Forum - Alex is probably the guy who answers. He wrote up a great post about the Windows Live Platform updates Read More...
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What I just emailed ScottGu

Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:14 AM by alogan
With MIX in a week, the ScottGu (I mean ASP.NET / Silverlight / IIS ) mania has rubbed off onto me :) --- From: Angus Logan Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:08 AM To: Scott Guthrie Cc: Nikhil Kothari; Steve Gordon; Keiji Kanazawa; John Richards Subject: Read More...
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