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Who gets my business re. Travel and why? COMMUNITY!

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 10:34 AM by alogan
Below is a random example I like to use when I talk about community, and why web sites need to built community. When I travel (which I do a lot), if I’m booking my own travel, I’ll either use Yahoo! FareChase or Kayak . In my opinion, neither Read More...
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I’m not a random dev, believe me because I said so

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:14 AM by alogan
Recently I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in Facebook playing with lots of different services, and I came across this LinkedIn Contacts application . This application asked me for my LinkedIn credential pair so I started getting worried. I Read More...
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Slideshare – cutting edge but not so much.

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 9:18 AM by alogan
SlideShare is a pretty neat web site – you can upload presentations and they get converted into widgets which you can embed on other web sites. I was using Friendfeed and one of the sources was Slideshare so I thought I’d sign up (bizarre Read More...
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Mind your manners

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:20 PM by alogan
A friend of mine from Australia, Andrew Green ( works at avenue-a | razorfish in NYC now ), did a presentation called Mind your Manners 1,2,3 and I was reminded of after playing with Pownce for a while. In Your Face! When you post a message to Pownce 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: 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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Google ships a Contacts API... welcome!

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 9:21 AM by alogan
At MIX07 (about a year ago) we announced the Windows Live Contacts API . Last week we announced the Windows Live Contacts API is in beta (which means more stability, scalability and a go-live license). I'm super excited that Google announced their Contacts Read More...
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DataPortability video

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 12:18 PM by alogan
Should be available in the near future - Inder Sethi - the dev manager for our social store (live contacts / messenger server) talks about why DataPortability is important to him. 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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