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Drowning in email? Don’t quit email, just use pay it forward email management

Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 2:06 PM by alogan
A long time ago I posted about PIFEM – its called Pay it forward because it will save your life, and after you learn how to use it, you need to tell someone else how to use it. A massive part of my job is email, talking w/ engineers on many different Read More...
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I’m in the Bay Area on Friday – meet up?

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:08 PM by alogan
Thursday I’m off to the OAuth summit and Friday I’ll be kicking it in the bay area. Ping me if anyone wants to catch up alogan @ microsoft.com or sms +1 425 753 7987 or http://twitter.com/anguslogan ( direct msg ) thx Read More...
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We’ve upgraded Silverlight Streaming to support SL2B2 same w/ PhotoZoom

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:05 PM by alogan
There been some chatter around about us upgrading the Silverlight Streaming service to be Silverlight 2 Beta 2 compatible . We said we would, and we did: My 3rd most favorite feature in SLS (after the smoking low latency download speed, and the direct Read More...
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SocialWebTv pilot episode – Smarr, Recordon, McCrea

Posted Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:28 PM by alogan
You should head over here to check out the pilot episode of theSocialWebTv which has “an revolving cast of characters” – primarily social web personalities talking smack about a range of stuff. This week’s episode had John McCrea , David Recordon & Read More...
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The secretGeek loves Live Mesh

Posted Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:25 AM by alogan
Several years ago I worked with Leon Bambrick (aka SecretGeek ) and he asked for an invite to Live Mesh ; The easiest way to hook him up was to invite him to a folder, my Windows Live Platform Public Presentation folder – which contains every presentation Read More...
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Great post on Live ID Web Auth (Configuration & ASP.NET Membership Provider)

Posted Sunday, June 22, 2008 7:39 AM by alogan
Martin H Normark has written a post on how to use Windows Live ID Web Authentication – the post is an excellent tutorial: In this blog post I'm going to cover how to authenticate users of an ASP.NET application against Windows Live , using the SDK for Read More...
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Will you be getting your PDC on?

Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 4:00 PM by alogan
I'm really looking forward to PDC this year - some of the session outlines are up on the site already (cloud, building blocks, silverlight, Windows 7 etc.) . The last PDC I went to - 2005 was great - the first look at what SharePoint 2003 and MCMS would Read More...
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Jetlagged, Spammed and SUPER ANNOYED!

Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:47 PM by alogan
I got an email from a friend ( from his email address ) I hadn’t heard from for a long time – turns out it was most probably unsolicited email sending on behalf of my friend from a web site which used his Messenger contacts as a pre-qualified set of targets. Read More...
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I’ll be in Seoul (South Korea) for some of this week + I’m hiring

Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:22 AM by alogan
There is some pretty interesting Windows Live Platform stuff happening in South Korea and the local team asked me to come over and spend time with customers , partners and kick it with the local crew. One really interesting thing is the broadband penetration Read More...
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New Expression Encoder Silverlight Streaming bits are out – push your 1400 Kbps content to the cloud to harness 1.4 Terabit/sec aggregated bandwidth

Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:12 AM by alogan
If you are creating Silverlight content using Expression Encoder – pushing this to the cloud and including it in your application couldn’t be easier – go to silverlight.live.com – it takes ~ 5 seconds to sign up for an account; you get 5 GB of free * Read More...
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Schedule insanity

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 5:49 PM by alogan
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More interviews – and massive understatement 15 terabytes? it is 15 petabytes of mapping information!!!

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 11:57 AM by alogan
Another 2 interviews with me on BuilderAU where I accidentally said there was 15 terabytes of mapping information instead of 15 petabytes… I wonder how much content 15 terabyes is… Mark Brown is going to beat me. Anyway – a few more interviews: What can Read More...
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PRESS: Video interview w/ Builder AU

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:46 AM by alogan
I did a video interview with BuilderAU Check out my video interview here or watch below: Read More...
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Coding horror brings screen scraping and credential collection to the main stream with shame post

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 8:21 AM by alogan
for Contacts: We (Windows Live) have an API , GOOG have an API , YHOO have an API – use it – don’t screen scrape. Check out this article where they school <redacted> on screen scraping: I'm willing to give <redacted> the benefit of the doubt Read More...
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Hey cool company – you aren’t so cool now because you spammed me.

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 6:54 AM by alogan
Its amusing that people are using Twitter to drive traffic to their site at the cost of reputation – how much are those 2 seconds of eyeball time ( before people delete the email ) worth? A company I thought was pretty hip followed me on twitter. My first Read More...
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Engagement drives conversion – NYC, Hardware Store, Bands and free BBQ.

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 5:25 AM by alogan
I’m in New York for a few days spending some time with my sister and my parents. NYC is way cool – crazy stuff happens like bands playing in hardware shops (i.e. hardware like home improvement ). My sister was on the way to her rehearsal space (dedicated Read More...
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I’m at the NYC DotNet User group Monday night

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 4:21 AM by alogan
I’m not exactly sure how the process runs but if you *really* want to go and you didn’t read this in time shoot me an email ( alogan@microsoft.com ) with your name and SMS +14257537987 and I’ll try to get you past security. From: nycdotnetdev@yahoogroups.com Read More...
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 available

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 1:05 AM by alogan
Grab the runtime bits from here ( windows and mac ) For the dev bits: Install Visual Studio 2008 then Install Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 - This add-on to Visual Studio 2008 allows you to use .NET to create Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Web Read More...
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Busted by twitter

Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 8:12 AM by alogan
Twitter and Conferences are almost made for each other - At SXSW twitter never let me down – always knowing where the party was, knowing what other people were up to – this morning it back fired. I was late for a conference call with our UK team and when Read More...
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The Virtual Earth ASP.NET control WILL BE shipped in the Windows Live Tools July CTP

Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:07 PM by alogan
When I was in Australia for reMIX, I managed to wrangle some camera time with the team from BuilderAU (awesome developer resource in Australia – by developers for developers ) and they covered a bit of our video interview in Club Builder – a tech wrap Read More...
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Yahoo! ships a Address Book API – Welcome!

Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:46 AM by alogan
I gave a shout out to Google when they shipped , so it is only fair to call out the Yahoo! Address Book API which was announced today by Charles Wu. This is another step forward in allowing people to safely access their contacts on many different web Read More...
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Kudos to Dave Campbell SQL technical fellow for using ZoomIt in keynote presentation

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:08 AM by alogan
Was super impressed to see ZoomIt being used in the TechEd keynote today – i’ve posted about this before and I get asked after every presentation I do. Read More...
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I’ll be @ TechEd developer conference in Orlando this week

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 1:23 PM by alogan
Conference season is insane! If you are going to be @ the teched developer conference shoot me an email angus@ removethis.microsoft.com and we’ll hang out and talk smack. We don’t have a massive line up at this conference and I’ll tell you why. When you Read More...
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Want engagement? Email still exists – Dopplr nailed this.

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 11:39 AM by alogan
I don’t use Dopplr a lot (except auto aggregating my TripIt iCAL feed and dropping a widget onto my blog), so naturally Dopplr’s existence sometimes drops to the back of my mind. One interesting thing they did which reminded me to them was sent a journal Read More...
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Socket Server? do it with Windows Live Messenger Library

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:31 AM by alogan
I met Jose from Cynergy Systems when I was in Sydney and now there is a video of one of his demos out. He basically built his own socket server to push the coordinates of the mouse in a Deep Zoom image to another machine, using Windows Live Messenger Read More...
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This isn’t a C&D

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 2:56 AM by alogan
Hi <redacted>, I’m Angus Logan and I work for the Windows Live Platform team . When I was using <redacted> I saw you were screen-scraping Hotmail and Gmail and lots of other places. Did you know we have a Contact API which provides you richer Read More...
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Richer video uploads for SLS (Robust: Pause and Resume)

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 1:53 AM by alogan
Over at SLS RemyP announced a new robust uploader If you are using Silverlight 2 Beta 1 , next time you go to http://silverlight.live.com to upload a video, you will be able to enjoy the completely overhauled upload stack. The tip of the iceberg is the Read More...
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Direct permalinking to videos from Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 1:49 AM by alogan
RemyP announced Permalinking baby! It is no longer necessary to pass streaming:/accountId/fileSet/fileName.wmv as initParams to your Silverlight application, you can directly point to the WMV file in Silverlight Streaming using the following HTTP permalink: Read More...
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