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Always trying to please, and it backfired.

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:12 PM by alogan
Kip at liveside saw an opportunity and took it :) How did this start? John Richards and I delivered a strategy session at our internal conference, TechReady7. Below is a screen shot of the evaluation system – the numbers on the left are the scores for Read More...
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Ego surfing w/ Cuil – I’m not this guy

Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:59 AM by alogan
I took Jeremiah’s advice and ran an a search for me on Cuil (the latest and apparently hottest search engine ) What’s wrong with this picture? :) Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Windows Live Tools July Refresh adds Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 6:02 AM by alogan
Check out the announcement at dev.live.com : The Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (CTP) allows you to easy drag and drop online services into your web site without worrying about any of the underlying goo. In this refresh we’ve fixed lots Read More...
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Online Identity

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 7:46 AM by alogan
I was reading Passport vs Open ID vs Facebook Connect over at Dick Hardt’s blog – interesting post! It was a follow on to his Facebook Connect post where he talks about FB becoming an identity provider. A few points were raised ( mostly historical ) re. Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: More Quick Apps launched + the great wall of videos

Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 6:28 AM by alogan
The team behind the creation of our demo applications, Windows Live Platform Quick Applications has been going super hard to get some more apps out the door. What are the Quick Apps? They are end to end demo applications which can be used a demos, technical Read More...
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Live blogging from F8

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:57 AM by alogan
I’m at f8 and i’ll be updating this post with info as I write more throughout the day. Technorati Tags: Facebook , f8 , conference , Zuckerberg , Social , platform , developers /* Style Definitions */ table.msonormaltable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; Read More...
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IM Control update – default names, tell where the conversation is coming from.

Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:09 PM by alogan
I really need to stop learning about things from Live mesh side . Picturepan2 from Livesino hit me on IM this afternoon to ask about the new feature our Messenger server engineers mentioned on their blog . Some feedback we got from customers was I’d love Read More...
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Sharing the Live Mesh love: doubling the preview participants and signup easier

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:07 AM by alogan
[read this post on the Live Mesh blog ( feed )] We mentioned in the Mesh forum that the Live Mesh technology preview is being opened up for US Live IDs to join up – many bloggers quickly picked up on this thanks to Liveside (go Sunshine !). One clarification Read More...
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Virtual Earth on the subway?

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 1:08 PM by alogan
Firstly – I’ve gone on record saying “Maps are sooo 2001” – because they are.  This is just something I found interesting - I was riding the subway in New York today. When I looked up I saw an ad for the new www.mta.info site which gives better directions Read More...
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Live Mesh update

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 3:50 AM by alogan
The Live Mesh crew have announced a few updates to their CTP – the features I really are about are: You don’t need to sync to the cloud now – you can do peer-to-peer only – this is awesome because it means you keep the cloud storage for things you need Read More...
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I’m in Houston at WW Partner Conference – anyone want to meet up?

Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 1:29 PM by alogan
The WPC is a huge event for MSFT – there will be 10k+ people there – lots of fun; I’m not here for the crowds though – I just want to meet some cool MSFT partners doing great stuff on the web; Or… if you are in Houston and you aren’t even attending WPC Read More...
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How do I find friends? easy baby.

Posted Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:59 AM by alogan
Over at identi.ca   there was a status update saying How do I find friends ? That’s easy – someone should update the laconi.ca source to use the Windows Live Contact API . So when you are the first person on the scene, your contacts could be stored Read More...
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Most promising site I’ve seen – ExpertFlyer.com

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:27 PM by alogan
Travel is both a passion and a necessity for me, anything which can make it easier is something I’m interested in. TechCrunch just posted about ExpertFlyer – this site looks like it has the most potential of any travel site I’ve seen – definitely subscribing Read More...
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Channel9 Video interview @ TechEd 2008 re. Windows Live

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:11 AM by alogan
At TechEd 2008 in Orlando Dan Fernandez ( the Non-Pro Developer product management guy who quit to become a Tv show host) interviewed me about the Windows Live Platform. Aside from clearly having a [coffee] buzz on, I talked about: The APIs we are exposing Read More...
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Want to know about MSFT Data Centers?

Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:13 PM by alogan
Debra Chrapaty runs global foundation services (i.e. our data centers – but so much more than just data centers) Om Malik interviewed Debra after Structure 08 conference – great video to watch; Read Om's post here Read More...
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Use Live Writer? Customize it with the Writer Plug-Ins: Charles Teague interview

Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:45 AM by alogan
Scott Lovegrove is the outside/community the god of writer plugins; the inside god is Charles Teague; Catherine Heller interviewed him about writer plugins and its now posted on the c9 site – watch below. Catherine Heller interviews Charles Teague on Read More...
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