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ANNOUNCEMENT: Two way contact APIs with the top Social Networks and Windows Live - invite to WL from Facebook; invite to Bebo or facebook from Windows Live - SAFELY!

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:10 PM by alogan
We just announced @ dev.live.com Windows Live have partnered with the top SNs around the world to provide consumers a safe way to invite their friends from Windows Live to << insert social network >> and vice-verser. Inviting my Facebook friends Read More...
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Quick Apps 6.0 are here - Social Search with Tafiti and Messenger | New Quick App | Lots of Enhancements

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 12:40 AM by alogan
The Windows Live Platform Quick Applications demo sites are making real progress. Between the 5.0 release and the 6.0 release we closed a lot of work items and added some great features – all in 178 work items! --- Tafiti Search visualization has Read More...
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Huge Skydrive (5GB), Huge Availability (38 Countries!)

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 4:36 AM by alogan
From the Skydrive blog : You've made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are. Today we're giving you both. You now have five times the space you had before — that’s 5GB of free online Read More...
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Microsoft joins DataPortability.org

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 4:03 AM by alogan
Kevin just announced on dev.live.com Microsoft is joining DataPortbility.org who's mission is: put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: New capabilities in Messenger APIs (Smooth Sign Up for Sharing Presence, Presence API, Color configuration on IM Control)

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:42 AM by alogan
A while ago I announced the Windows Live Messenger IM Control on my blog - got to http://dev.live.com/Messenger/ The team have been doing some really cool stuff lately; We got some feedback: Its great but I can't have my users copying and pasting, how Read More...
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Want to build your own <insert UCG site here>? Got just the right code for you.

Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:12 AM by alogan
A while ago there was a site built by some HARDCORE French developers called Blue Portal - it has been used as the foundation for several customer sites, but never got Shared Sourced . Tim Sneath and the crew @ Vertigo took the Blue Portal codebase, tore Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Windows Live Spaces Photo API (Alpha) available & Interactive SDK

Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:03 PM by alogan
One liner : The Windows Live Spaces Photo API allows a user to delegate permissions for a third party web site to read or read/write on albums and photos stored within Windows Live Spaces via a server to server API. --- Kevin (guy who runs dev.live.com Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API - conversations from Web to Client & querying presence

Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:00 PM by alogan
The Windows Live™ Messenger IM Control lets people on the Web reach you in Messenger by showing your Messenger status on your web site, blog, or social networking profile. The IM Control runs in the browser and lets site visitors message you without installing Read More...
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SERVICE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: Windows Live ID Web Authentication Released!

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:42 AM by alogan
Exciting! - Windows Live(TM) ID Web Authentication has been released (final 1.0 release) - see dev.live.com/liveid or the Windows Live ID Team Blog ( feed ) --- What is Windows Live ID? Windows Live™ ID is the authentication system for Microsoft’s online Read More...
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