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The ins and outs of Mesh-enabled Web Applications

Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:40 PM by alogan
At PDC there was so much noise and I think one of the things which is huge and didn’t get a ton of focus were Mesh-enabled Web Applications – personally these are my favorite feature/game changer. Thankfully, the owner of this area of the Live Framework, Read More...
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Want minutes and access to 300M users? use Messenger Library – you own the UX

Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:33 PM by alogan
This site came across the internal wire, its in Italian so I dont really know what its about, but its a way cool customized Messenger experience using the Windows Live Messenger Library . Pretty neat. Now the Messenger client (at least the beta) has multiple Read More...
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How all bills should be paid

Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:31 AM by alogan
Wouldn’t it be cool if i could just grant permission for www.earthclassmail.com to scan and write my mail into my mesh, bonus points if they could also structure it in some type of XML. That way, any program could write an adapter to my mesh: add a reminder Read More...
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Program your Tivo from your phone? We meshified a Media Center :: ours is cooler

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:49 PM by alogan
Mobile TechCrunch just posted the new ability to program your Tivo from your phone – reminded me of a demo our Media Center team created for the PDC, which I think is cooler . We meshified an MCE making it possible to see the electronic program guide, Read More...
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Sondre Bjellås rocks the Mesh : Flickr2Mesh

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 10:01 AM by alogan
Sondre Bjellås has been posting on Mesh and Live Framework quite a bit. One of his posts really jumped out at me, the Flickr2Mesh application he wrote. Its fairly straight forward code, just downloads all of your Flickr photos to your hard drive at a Read More...
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Updated the Live Framework Tech Preview SDK

Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:31 AM by alogan
Over at the Live Framework blog Kevin has given details of the update for the tech preview. Version numbers for this release Live Framework Developer Sandbox : 0.9.3519.1 Live Framework Client: 0.9.3519.1 Live Framework SDK: 0.9.3519.1 and the key updates Read More...
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Telecommuting is sooo easy

Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 3:01 PM by alogan
Since I’m working in Australia until January (except a week in France) plugging into all the team meetings is super important. Today I finally convinced my team to use the RoundTable we have in the meeting rooms. This is a screenshot of the Live Meeting Read More...
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Getting started with the Live Framework (Screencast)

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:30 PM by alogan
There are a few things you need to do to get started with the Live Framework. setup a demo LIve ID (recommended not to use your real Live ID because its a CTP and you may run demos or share your code. This is only necessary if you run demos) redeem the Read More...
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Live Mesh for your tablet PC : Student Tablet User Group video

Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:46 PM by alogan
I didn’t even know the STUG existed but it is cool. " About Tablet Tips : Tablet Tips is an informational video podcast produced by students at the University of Louisville's Speed School of Engineering to help educate students and faculty about the use Read More...
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wow – when did MapMyRun become so cool?

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:31 PM by alogan
A while ago my sister got me onto MapMyRun. I don’t run seriously and because I always run wierd routes in different cities I like to know how far I went. Updating MapMyRun tonight it offered to publish my training long to some of my favorite news feeds, Read More...
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Local Live Operating Environment benefits elude me… think harder.

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 4:50 PM by alogan
Dare wrote a good post about the Live Framework (is it Microsoft’s GData or something else) but one thing kinda jumped out at me in his summary: the client-side Live Operating Environment is a technology whose benefits elude me. I admit it is kind of Read More...
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Get your Live Framework blogging on

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:42 AM by alogan
New blog :: http://blogs.msdn.com/liveframework/ Here is just a sample of some of the topics we’ll be discussing in the coming weeks and months: Our motivation in developing the Live Framework Principles guiding our design Using the addressing model to Read More...
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The book of meshification : by Danny Thorpe

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 8:59 PM by alogan
Danny Thorpe is a rock star and he’s been working on some great stuff with our team (you can tell by his posts its been the Live Framework Tools ) You should read his post which is MASSIVE, how do I mesh thee . I also love he tagged the post with Google Read More...
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Get your mesh / Live Services / Orb wallpaper

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 7:21 PM by alogan
Ori posted some wallpapers for you to enjoy :: download here Read More...
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David Treadwell Azure Services Platform Overview for investors

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 6:26 PM by alogan
Dave Treadwell, corporate vice president, Live Platform Services ran a live meeting on the Azure Services Platform. If you are interested in Azure check it out. Transcript | PowerPoint | Live Meeting Read More...
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Live Search :: monetize your search app with ads - Silk Road

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 6:38 AM by alogan
I work a bit with cousins over in Live Search (Ani & Alessandro) and today @ PubCon they announced a beta of the search APIs v2.0 “Silk Road”. Check it out at search.live.com/developers Or to see an implementation go to www.geekswithblogs.net   Read More...
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Changes for Windows Live

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:26 PM by alogan
One of my coworkers (Peer Bentzen) worked on a great video explaining some of the new changes @ Windows Live and now its out in the wild (seen on TechCrunch) I can share it: Brian Hall gives a deeper overview at Windows Live Wire . Read More...
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Ori Amiga trying to quietly sneak into the blogosphere – no such luck | IronPython

Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 11:44 PM by alogan
Ori (Group Program Manager of Live Framework dev plat) has started a blog over here. His first post is about using IronPython to code against the Live Framework . Nice one! Read More...
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When one huge brain (James Hamilton) comments on another huge brain (Abolade Gbadegesin) re. Service Architecture of Mesh

Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 9:12 AM by alogan
James just posted a little recap/overview of the Mesh technologies service architecture. Check out his post . Read More...
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Details behind Microsoft’s OpenID Provider – Straight from the PM

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:48 PM by alogan
Jorgen Thelin (complete rockstar) did a session at PDC and went deep on our OpenID Provider . I’ve put the recording in Vimeo (here and below) and you can watch the full session here ( or just this snippet silverlighty glory ) Windows Live ID OpenID Provider Read More...
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TechEd EMEA font is from Asia?

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:21 PM by alogan
I’m working on my decks for TechEd EMEA (in Barcelona next wk) and i was surprised by the font. Read More...
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Woah! Huge identity post – Microsoft’s new identity landscape

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:09 PM by alogan
Vittorio posted about "Microsoft's new identity landscape" – he says it all . Read More...
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The ins and outs of P2P provided by Mesh Services

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:01 AM by alogan
Newton Sanchez goes deep on the synchronization used by Mesh Services. Watch here or below: Newton Sanches: Live Mesh P2P Read More...
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Detailed screenshots of Live Mesh for Mac

Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:28 PM by alogan
Today whilst everyone else was recovering from PDC, I thought I’d grab the latest build of the Live Mesh Mac bits ( watch video ) and cut some screenshots. Installation   First run experience Adding a new Live Mesh folder       Read More...
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Microsoft Services Connector - some resources

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:58 PM by alogan
I just saw the recording of the Microsoft Services Connector ( a free tool for connecting Active Directory to services from Microsoft ) was online ( watch it + pptx )   Come and get the CTP and the Admin guide It works by federating your Active Directory Read More...
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Meshifying a Windows Presentation Foundation app – Ori Amiga during the PDC2008 Keynote

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 3:32 PM by alogan
Ori jumped on stage during the PDC2008 keynote and pimped a WPF application – it was way cool. I’ve included the recordings below: PDC2008 Keynote Ori Amiga Live Framework demo from Angus Logan on Vimeo . Watch entire keynote 2 Read More...
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Watch my session recording from PDC 2008 – Making Apps more Social

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:05 PM by alogan
  At PDC I managed to deliver a session between all of the schmoozing and rides in Hummers. About 1AM before the session I decided to reboot the presentation and talk about building shared data tiers, aka a Social Database, using the Mesh Technologies. Read More...
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Get your architecture on! Dharma Shukla video interview

Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:53 AM by alogan
Dharma is the man! he goes deep in this video interview to give you a great understanding of hte Live Framework. Watch it here or below: Dharma Shukla: Inside Live Framework Read More...
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