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Web Application Toolkit to make your website social

Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 2:40 PM by alogan
James Senior just told me about his pet project, the Web Application Toolkit for Making your Website Social . This Web Application Toolkit shows how, using a few lines of code with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, it is possible to add social capabilities Read More...
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Messenger Web Toolkit updates – UX polish, faster dev time, richer experience for non-Messenger users

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 5:47 AM by alogan
We’ve been working hard on the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows you to connect your web site to 330M+ people who use Windows Live Messenger every month! Today we’d like to announce the availability of the Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 Read More...
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Some really slick video/event system with instant messaging integration by SharpLogic - Hulu should listen up!

Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:25 AM by alogan
Lets say you have 1 computer with 1 screen. You watch a ton of video content (like 24 on Hulu ). You like to watch full screen but don't want to miss IM conversations or other stuff. Why not integrate the IM straight into the video player with a subtle Read More...
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Web Toolkit interview with the man, Keiji K

Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 3:17 PM by alogan
Ever wonder what people are doing when they aren’t on your website? That’s right, they are in Windows Live Messenger. Check out the Channel9 Interview with KeijiK where he outlines how you can plug into an audience of 320 million+ people in a unique way Read More...
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You asked for it - Windows Live Messenger Web Bar themes

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:21 AM by alogan
One of the pieces of feedback we got from the launch of the Web Bar was “ give me some pre-defined themes so I can make the end-user experience smooth ”. Steve Gordon the development lead on the Web Toolkit heard you and has posted a few basic themes Read More...
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MIX09 is done! 8 great sessions (380 minutes) of Live Services content for you

Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:28 AM by alogan
We had a whopping 8 sessions about identity/safety, messaging and the Live Framework at MIX - below are links to all of the sessions about Live Services which you can view online. Overview of Sessions Messaging / Presence : On Wednesday we announced the Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Reach your people everywhere, in real time!

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:51 AM by alogan
For users of the Web, being able to connect to friends and build social networks is becoming more important every day. Today, we are releasing the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit --a set of controls and libraries that enable you to connect Windows 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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Messenger Library 2.5 out the door- get your Firefox 3 Compat here!

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:11 PM by alogan
The Messenger team rolled out 2.5 of the Windows Live Messenger Library – build your own web based Messenger client, you own the UX !!! There is a sample I’ve been keeping in my back pocket (waiting for security review) but now seems like a good time 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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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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Socket Server? do it with Windows Live Messenger Library

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:31 AM by alogan
I met Jose from Cynergy Systems when I was in Sydney and now there is a video of one of his demos out. He basically built his own socket server to push the coordinates of the mouse in a Deep Zoom image to another machine, using Windows Live Messenger Read More...
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Alien vs Predator - Scary - why not IM about it :) - using iBloks and Windows Live Messenger Library

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:16 PM by alogan
The team over at iBloks have delivered a solution for Fox to promote the Alien vs Predator Requiem DVD sale . This is built on the iBloks Video Messenger infrastructure, so when you are on the site watching video, you just click on the video - it takes Read More...
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Web IM is hot! - access 300m+ people and build your own UX w/ Windows Live Messenger.

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:17 PM by alogan
ReadWriteWeb just posted about WebIM being hot (caused by the recent Meebo valuation of ~ $200m w/ 29m users). They are right - Web based IM is hot! We are seeing a lot of interest in the Windows Live Messenger Library and the Windows Live Messenger IM Read More...
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KeijiK rocking the house with Windows Live Messenger Library and Silverlight 2 sample

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:37 AM by alogan
Steve Gordon built a full Silverlight demo application; He wrote the code in Silverlight 2 (i.e. you can code in C# or the other languages Silverlight 2 can be coded in); they basically took ScottGu's demo application and then enhanced it with WLML I Read More...
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