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ANNOUNCEMENT: Windows Live Agents Visual Studio SDK available with new features/processes

Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:53 AM by alogan
Over at the Windows Live Agents blog they we just announced the general availability of the WL Agents Visual Studio SDK . I really like Agents because they are a different way for you to connect with your customer base. You can define the conversation Read More...
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I’m in Bangkok – wanna catch up? +66 8 17139771

Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:16 PM by alogan
I’ll be presenting at reMIX SEA – one thing which surprised me is the first time I hit the site I saw my face in the promotional content, scary. Shoot me an SMS, give me a call on +66 8 17139771 (my $3 Thai prepaid SIM card), twitter to me (@anguslogan) Read More...
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Arpan Shah living the Mesh life style

Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:02 PM by alogan
(all the sharepoint readers who never unsubscribed will appreciate this) Arpan Shah is still the man. He runs the tech product management team for SharePoint Technologies. He recently posted about Live Mesh and how he loves it – in fact he tries to spin Read More...
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A few thoughts about presenting in Malaysia

Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:19 PM by alogan
today was a really interesting day, I presented at MIX Essentials in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) at the Limkokwing University campus in the multimedia super corridor. Presenting in Malaysia is quite fun – just before you think the conference is going  Read More...
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The Microsoft Virtual Earth ASP.NET control previewed @ reMIX Australia

Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:03 AM by alogan
Over @ liveside , John O’Brien posted about the new VE ASP.NET control – it allows ASP.NET developers to easily drag and drop a VE map onto the canvas and then interact with it, 0 JavaScript – sweeet! This thing is smart, you can use clientside extenders Read More...
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Have you heard of the echo chamber?

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 10:49 PM by alogan
I was quite surprised this post which essentially has no body or real title got aggregated to techmeme . enough said. Read More...
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PRESS: Windows Live seeks to make social networking easier

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 10:43 PM by alogan
When I was in Australia I did a phone interview with Ashley Clark – below are a few snippets but head over to IT News to read the full article . The bulk of the interview was about Data Portability and what’s cooking in the Windows Live Platform . Microsoft Read More...
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I’m in Malaysia for the next 2 days – catch up?

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 12:14 PM by alogan
If you are in Kuala Lumpur and want to catch up to talk WL Platform - SMS my cell +1 425 753 7987 or email me (alogan @ removethis .microsoft.com). I’m meeting lots of customers/partners and also presenting at the reMIX essentials event . This show should Read More...
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Book search winding down – we’ll reverse this out of Tafiti

Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 5:08 PM by alogan
There has been a lot of coverage on the announcement that book search functionality being retired from Live Search : Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be Read More...
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What happened @ reMIX Australia? – check it out here

Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:43 PM by alogan
Michael Kordahi (DelicateGenius) posted a wrap up here You can also check out the opening of the keynote done by Mark Pesce (Futurist, Inventor, Panelist, something else – can’t remember) over here (or below). Read More...
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Updates to SkyDrive : Captions, Comments, and 62 countries and regions!

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 8:54 AM by alogan
The SkyDrive team announced some updates – way cool – check out skydrive.live.com We're pleased to unveil new updates to SkyDrive today! Here's a quick rundown of what's included: More places. We're now live in 24 additional locations , bringing our grand Read More...
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What does asking for a LinkedIn endorsement actually mean?

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:44 PM by alogan
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Reaching out to screen scrapers – 1) unprofessional 2) puts your users at risk 3) way more effort

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:15 PM by alogan
its amazing how many companies screen scrape – i’m slowly reaching out the ones I come across – wondering what the strike rate will be :) Hi - Its angus logan from the WL Platform team @ Microsoft. I'd love to have a chat with you about the contact API Read More...
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I’m in Sydney on Tuesday and Melbourne on Wed/Thu to catch up

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 10:47 PM by alogan
If you want to catch up in Sydney or Melbourne to talk smack email me (alogan at removethis microsoft.com)! i’ll be at the reMIX conference doing: keynote demo breakout session lots of press interviews Read More...
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I’ll be at the Data Sharing Summit tomorrow

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:04 PM by alogan
I’ll be at the Data Sharing summit to talk about MSFT’s views on Data Portability – come on down – www.datasharingsummit.com Read More...
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Windows Live for IT Pros? – listen to my TechNet radio interview

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:45 AM by alogan
Leveraging the Windows Live Platform for Your Organization Listen to TechNet Radio and learn how you can leverage the benefits of the Windows Live platform for your organization. We discuss Windows Live ID ; Microsoft Silverlight Streaming ; and the Windows Read More...
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Why no Windows Live ID auth on Zoho?

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:04 AM by alogan
I saw the press today on Zoho announcing they would be consuming Google & Yahoo accounts as an authentication source for their system. It’s really cool that I can now auth using one of my existing accounts from Goog/Yhoo. Our primary goal with allowing Read More...
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eye.fi keep on innovating – new models, Geotagging / hotspots and ANY WI-FI NETWORK!

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:34 AM by alogan
I’ve been a fan of these guys ever since they hooked up their service to our Photo API CTP (its a preview!) – really slick service. Today Eye.fi seems to be getting coverage on their announcement of a new products (Share/Explore & Home). One of the Read More...
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Spamatron backfire

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:06 AM by alogan
This just crossed my desk : a web site trashing their reputation one address book at a time. In essence, it raises the issue of when someone grants you permission to their data what will you do with it. If you are going to email everyone - it had better Read More...
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In New York today – wanna meet up and talk WL services?

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:18 AM by alogan
I’m in NYC if you want to meet up and talk smack – shoot me an email alogan @removethis microsoft.com and we can grab a coffee. Read More...
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Getting in touch with my artistic side

Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:26 AM by alogan
One thing I like about twitter which I haven’t done until now, is setting a cool background image. The picture below is a stitch of about 24 images which were taken over the North Pole (flying from Seattle to Korea) (you can even see the original here Read More...
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Microsoft Pro Photo Tools

Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:58 AM by alogan
Whilst I take lots of photos, I’m far from a pro, perhaps Microsoft Pro Photo Tools will hook me up :) At only 6.32 MB to download & install its much more welcome than other packages which are 300MB-700MB (granted, the functionality is probably less). Read More...
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Designed for failure

Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:22 AM by alogan
Alex Mallet posted @ the Live Mesh blog about how the Live Mesh cloud services run, how we think about the services, deployment, monitoring, connectivity – check it out . Our general philosophy when building our cloud services was to adhere to the tenets Read More...
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Get more productivity out of Live Mesh with Vista tips & tricks.

Posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 6:00 AM by alogan
Live Mesh is both a platform and a platform experience . One of the first applications to demonstrate what the Live Mesh platform can do is a folder/file synchronization solution. Typically when you create or consume a Mesh enabled folder it gets dropped Read More...
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