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I just got a new Flip Video camera and needed to play with it. Our photo guy (JP Wollersheim) always hooks me up with goodies to play with, and a few months he dropped off a Samsung photo frame which I have hooked up to my photos on Windows Live Spaces. Read More...
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Recently I’ve been more and more amazed by the ecosystem being built around Twitter . Three things have made an impact: TweetScan : When we announced the Live Mesh Technology Preview tweetscan was one of the key things we used to monitor the vibe and Read More...
Check out the video and the site www.RoboChamps.com They use Windows Live ID and Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Read More...
Tonight we introduced Live Mesh go and see www.mesh.com – follow it on TweetScan . I’m sitting in the ship room right now and this is really exciting. Microsoft Resources Read the blog | Welcome to Live Mesh | Live Mesh as a Platform | What Read More...
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I just landed in Orlando and I’m flying out Tuesday morning – if you want to meet up and talk about Windows Live services email me (alogan atREMOVETHIS microsoft.com) Read More...
Mark Brown (the alogan of Virtual Earth ) has started blogging . He’s a product manager so he knows everything about everything (or can find it out). BLOG: http://blogs.msdn.com/markbrown/ FEED: http://blogs.msdn.com/markbrown/rss.aspx The good Read More...
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The Messenger team have released a codeplex project which has 3 main samples: Silverlight 2 sample (a managed code wrapper) C# ( Script# ) – develop in C# and then we compile into JavaScript a JavaScript sample This is way cool stuff, you can really Read More...
Below is a random example I like to use when I talk about community, and why web sites need to built community. When I travel (which I do a lot), if I’m booking my own travel, I’ll either use Yahoo! FareChase or Kayak . In my opinion, neither Read More...
i’m not talking about Project Runway, I’m talking about a Panoramic Photo stitch off. Over on LifeHacker they are loving some free panoramic photo stitching software – did you know Windows Live Photo Gallery does that plus more? Check Read More...
There are some more SLS features which just got released – read the announcement here . The summary is: Upload an SLS application and then distribute it as a Windows application Performance fixes for large numbers of file sets Changed the supported Read More...
A while ago I posted about the user experience on login.live.com . I just found another example I’ve seen of a customized login page. Right now to customize the page you need to use some specific software we aren’t widely distributing ( ping Read More...
RemyP just posted a sample application (C#) for interacting with the Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service using the WebDAV API. You can leverage this code as you wish, edit it to suit your needs, or compile it "as is" and use it out-of-the-box. Read More...
I'm not a robotics nerd, but there are 2 reasons I care about this announcement : Marc Mercuri is one of the guys behind this, and he planned and built Tafiti – the guy is smart! Mary Jo Foley says you should grab a copy and if MJF says grab it... Read More...
Most of the Windows Live, Windows Live Platform and Virtual Earth MVPs are coming to Redmond to hang out for the MVP Summit – super exciting. A few years ago, I was an MVP, and the MVP summit was an awesome event to be getting lots of new information, Read More...
Recently I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in Facebook playing with lots of different services, and I came across this LinkedIn Contacts application . This application asked me for my LinkedIn credential pair so I started getting worried. I Read More...
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davidacoder left a comment on my blog re. Live ID security, I had a chat with Neel ( runs Live ID ) and he just posted a list of the things we are doing around phishing resistance – there are lots of different things in play from EV Certificates, Read More...
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SlideShare is a pretty neat web site – you can upload presentations and they get converted into widgets which you can embed on other web sites. I was using Friendfeed and one of the sources was Slideshare so I thought I’d sign up (bizarre Read More...
Starting the 12th when i’m back my schedule gets a bit crazy (Seattle/Silicon Valley/Sanfran/Orlando/Sanfran/Seattle); One of the cool things is presenting in Silicon Valley on Windows Live on the 17th, you can register now for free : ReMIX08 is Read More...
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A friend of mine from Australia, Andrew Green ( works at avenue-a | razorfish in NYC now ), did a presentation called Mind your Manners 1,2,3 and I was reminded of after playing with Pownce for a while. In Your Face! When you post a message to Pownce Read More...
The Flickr friend finder just got some coverage on ReadWriteWeb ( my comment ). Like anything, sharing photos is more fun with friends. I’m a huge fan of Flickr , I think their product is really impressive (it is different to Spaces Photos given Read More...
 
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