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Making room for new stuff : retiring 2 web controls

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:26 AM by alogan
We just posted that two web controls are being retired, so we can make room for new stuff coming @ MIX09 . The controls which are being discontinued are: Photos Control (showed you your photo albums and let you transfer the pictures to a third party website) Read More...
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Microsoft Recite – search your voice notes. sweet!

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 2:52 PM by alogan
Ben just announced   the technology preview for Microsoft Recite . The video below sums it up – good stuff! Read More...
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live.com background re. Australian Bushfires

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:22 PM by alogan
There is some serious bush fires happening in Australia right now -- very very bad. I don’t know much as I haven’t been following the news. I was pleasantly surprised the live.com team in the US have chosen this as a theme for the background on their Read More...
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Some new announcements re. Safety : Data Portability and Live ID Sign in

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:27 AM by alogan
I just posted a couple of new announcements over at dev.live.com. We have worked with Octazen to make their importer use the Live Contact API which is way cool, now lots of sites can provide safer addressbook portability. I also posted about some Live Read More...
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the tax is conversion but providing choice is not negotiable

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:03 AM by alogan
Few thoughts from the Open ID UX summit today: people need to be given a choice and they need to be in control of where their data flows. it isn’t enough to just say “if you want to sign in, we will get your address book”. What information gets shared Read More...
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What is the Mesh Video Player? Grab the code.

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:11 AM by alogan
one of our field rockstars, brian gorbett has built a pretty cool mesh enabled web application – mesh video player . check out his post and watch his video and grab the code. (p.s. i think he is allergic to capitalization) Read More...
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New Live Framework Tools January CTP

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:31 AM by alogan
Over at the Live Framework blog they’d posted a new community tech preview – download it . Enhancements include: Debugging or running a Mesh-enabled Web Application which contains no changes from previous versions immediately launches the application Read More...
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