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Putting a photo frame to real use (in my office) + playing with a Flip video camera

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 8:40 AM by alogan
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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The twitter ecosystem rocks

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 8:00 AM by alogan
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...
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RoboChamps launched

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 9:58 AM by alogan
Check out the video and the site www.RoboChamps.com They use Windows Live ID and Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Read More...
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Live Mesh Technology Preview + links to all the write ups

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:19 PM by alogan
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’m @ devconnections – wanna meet up and talk Windows Live?

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 2:36 PM by alogan
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...
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New Virtual Earth blog – Mark Brown

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:58 AM by alogan
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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Messenger in Silverlight 2 or Script# or JavaScript – see the codeplex project

Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:43 AM by alogan
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...
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Who gets my business re. Travel and why? COMMUNITY!

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 10:34 AM by alogan
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...
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Should we have a stitch off?

Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:27 PM by alogan
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...
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New SLS features available + distribute as Windows Application + Performance + Fileset name improvements

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 5:36 PM by alogan
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...
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Windows Live ID sign in (login.live.com) UX customization

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:17 PM by alogan
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...
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Silverlight Streaming WebDAV sample bits

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:07 AM by alogan
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...
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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio CTP1 available

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:26 AM by alogan
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...
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I’m excited about the MVP Summit

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:19 AM by alogan
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...
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I’m not a random dev, believe me because I said so

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:14 AM by alogan
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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Ouch

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:17 AM by alogan
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Post by Live ID GM re. Phishing responding to davidacoder’s comment on my blog

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:52 AM by alogan
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 – cutting edge but not so much.

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 9:18 AM by alogan
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...
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I’ll be presenting @ reMIX Silicon Valley on 17th April 2008

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 8:41 AM by alogan
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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Mind your manners

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:20 PM by alogan
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...
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Flickr implements the Windows Live Contacts API in their Friend Finder

Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:47 AM by alogan
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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