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non work: Brisbane getting lit up for River Fire! F1-11 flies past my apartment

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 5:06 PM by alogan
I just happen to be home this year for the best day on the river in Brisbane – Riverfire , part of Brisbane’s River Festival . Basically everyone celebrates having a big brown river run through our city with lots of fun stuff. Riverfire is the business Read More...
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Marc Canter asks how Live Mesh will play with the 'Open Mesh'

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 2:54 PM by alogan
If you haven't read Marc's post go read it, then go read this post - all should be answered. With a mantra of comprehensive, simple, open we'll fit fine into the 'Open Mesh' (plus we've built on HTTP, FeedSync, REST, ATOM(PUB), JSON, then the identity Read More...
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Live Mesh updates

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 9:17 AM by alogan
over at the Live Mesh blog they’ve posted an update which should propagate within 24 hours – you can try to force and update by right clicking on the notifier (in the system tray) and selecting update. This update includes: Increased the reliability of Read More...
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Its all happening in Messenger programmability land – push your Messenger personal status to Facebook Status

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:39 PM by alogan
At the end of July the Messenger Server team posted WLML v2 , since then they’ve added a a neat sample for v2 and also recently launched a new version of the Messenger Facebook Application ( watch old video about it + use on Facebook ). The Messenger Read More...
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Download IE8 Beta 2

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:12 PM by alogan
www.microsoft.com/ie - ‘nuff said (because they said it all here ) --- now I can start taking screenshots in IE again (I’ve been running the dogfood for ages and couldn’t share screenshots) -- You can become a fan of IE8 too on Facebook -- Watch the dev Read More...
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OAuth Core 1.0 licensed.

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:29 PM by alogan
Eran Hammer-Lahav announced the OAuth Core 1.0 specification has now been licensed ! I’ve been watching OAuth for a while as it is similar to Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication – its an interesting technology with a very strong community. Check Read More...
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Fun video interview from TechEd US – Carl Franklin, Angus Logan, Dr Neil, Mark Brown

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:43 AM by alogan
This interview may end some careers but that’s not stopping me from sharing it ( Stream High | Stream Low | WMV Lo | WMV Hi | MP4 | MP3 ) Here are some of the things we talked about ASP.NET tools for Windows Live Virtual Earth: 3D and the cameras they Read More...
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Get your Mesh on (in English) in India, Canada and Ireland!

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 5:00 PM by alogan
Amit Mital just announced at dev.live.com (and the Live Mesh blog ) we are expanding the technical preview of Live Mesh to include Canada ( Paul will be happy ), India and Ireland ( a few weeks ago we expanded to the UK, Australia and New Zealand ). You Read More...
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Into gossip? Into Messenger? Dolly magazine (and NineMSN) bring them together

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 4:14 PM by alogan
I was voting on best frock and checking if I’d cut it as a celeb. when I saw the NineMSN and Dolly Australia team announced they’ve integrated the Windows Live Messenger Library ( WLML ) into their site , allowing people to chat inline and share content. Read More...
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Pimp yo' blog or desktop with PDC bling!

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:20 AM by alogan
lots of bling goodness happening over at the PDC site – stick these on your blog to show people you’ll be there! There is so much hype around PDC internally – there is a lot of really cool stuff our team will be talking about there . Add bling to your Read More...
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Going deep on the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control – video training galore

Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 11:17 AM by alogan
John O’Brien has outdone himself creating a ton of video content on the VE ASPNET control – check it out at liveside . There are lots of videos here, I have the title, WMV download link and iframes. Downloading and Installing View Video (WMV)   View Read More...
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I’m presenting @ PDC 2008

Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:08 AM by alogan
I’ll be presenting this session at PDC 2008: Live Platform: Building Applications with Social Data Learn how to enable people-centric data access from any application. Millions of people use Microsoft's online services to store and share information. Read More...
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Is voicemail dead or not? tech press make up your mind.

Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 6:39 AM by alogan
~ 1mth ago Arrington posted that Voicemail is dead and he got a massive amount of coverage . Today the NYT (Matt Richtel) has a post about Slydial , a new service which lets you drop straight into someone’s voicemail and leave a message (bypassing any Read More...
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