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Should we have a stitch off?

Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:27 PM by alogan
i’m not talking about Project Runway, I’m talking about a Panoramic Photo stitch off. Over on LifeHacker they are loving some free panoramic photo stitching software – did you know Windows Live Photo Gallery does that plus more? Check Read More...
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New SLS features available + distribute as Windows Application + Performance + Fileset name improvements

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 5:36 PM by alogan
There are some more SLS features which just got released – read the announcement here . The summary is: Upload an SLS application and then distribute it as a Windows application Performance fixes for large numbers of file sets Changed the supported Read More...
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Silverlight Streaming WebDAV sample bits

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:07 AM by alogan
RemyP just posted a sample application (C#) for interacting with the Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service using the WebDAV API. You can leverage this code as you wish, edit it to suit your needs, or compile it "as is" and use it out-of-the-box. Read More...
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I’m excited about the MVP Summit

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:19 AM by alogan
Most of the Windows Live, Windows Live Platform and Virtual Earth MVPs are coming to Redmond to hang out for the MVP Summit – super exciting. A few years ago, I was an MVP, and the MVP summit was an awesome event to be getting lots of new information, Read More...
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Flickr implements the Windows Live Contacts API in their Friend Finder

Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:47 AM by alogan
The Flickr friend finder just got some coverage on ReadWriteWeb ( my comment ). Like anything, sharing photos is more fun with friends. I’m a huge fan of Flickr , I think their product is really impressive (it is different to Spaces Photos given Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Ads Pilot (US only)

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:35 PM by alogan
Over on the SLS blog RemyP announced the SLS Ads Pilot - This is quite exciting - if you have great content, you can store and serve the video content, and now get paid! Below is the post : This spring we'll be launching a pilot program to offer turnkey 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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A few updates for Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:53 AM by alogan
Remember MIX08? When we doubled Silverlight Streaming (the storage 4 to 10 GB, the max KBPS 700 to 1.4MBPS, the bandwidth instead of 1 million minutes (what did that mean?) - we now give you 5 TERABYTES of traffic PER MONTH!!!)!!! well here are a few 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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GeorgeM gets his blog on re. Unified standards-based protocols and tooling for storage

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:55 AM by alogan
George Moore is the General Manager of the WL Platform team (runs a chunk of engineering); He has a super detailed post about AtomPub / Tooling and storage . Check it out Read More...
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Please take my credentials. No really - take them!

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:18 PM by alogan
I just flew into Houston, TX on the red-eye from Seatac and I'm sitting in a starbucks waiting for my flight to Austin, TX so the writing my not be top of the pops but I wanted to rant a little. --- What bought this on? I saw a super SCARY STORY about Read More...
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Photo Zoom sees the light of day

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:35 AM by alogan
Way cool that PhotoZoom was announced a few days ago as usual Liveside got the scoop . One of the first things I did when I moved to Redmond was a Steve Ballmer keynote demo @ Worldwide Partner Conference. Some sizzle we added to that keynote was to visualize Read More...
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Mix is done - i'm out.

Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 6:42 AM by alogan
My observations are geeks, deisgners, nerds, Microsoft employees, press, analysts, show girls, and dealers... everyone - had fun @ MIX08. There is a HUGE amount of recordings available online - you can go and check them out - and in a few weeks there Read More...
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Missing MIX? - See the Adding IM to any Site session & Developing with Windows Live Recordings ONLINE NOW!

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 5:06 AM by alogan
The difference between coming to MIX, and not being here are as follows: If you don't come: you may have less chance of getting arrested your liver will thank you you won't have to cleanse your soul when you leave Las Vegas you can PAUSE presentations Read More...
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Transcoding in the sky with Silverlight Streaming

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:00 PM by alogan
Do you have media like *.mov files which Silverlight doesn't speak? Do you really really want that media in Silverlight? Do you have an abundance of bandwidth to push un-encoded files up to the cloud? Sick of melting your CPU to encode media? we can do Read More...
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