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Show your Windows Live friends what you do around the web (Activity Aggregation)

Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:53 AM by alogan
A couple of weeks ago we shipped an update to Windows Live which made it possible for people to share the things they do around the web with the people they know in Windows Live (including Messenger and Hotmail). Here are some of the sites you can add: Read More...
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OAuth as a sign in (to Twitter) got me thinking

Posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:57 AM by alogan
Eran Hammer-Lahav just posed about Twitter’s new “Sign in with Twitter” ( documentation ) functionality which is powered by OAuth (not Open ID). It is quite a neat solution, you can both authenticate into a site and grant them permission for them to party 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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How do I find friends? easy baby.

Posted Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:59 AM by alogan
Over at identi.ca   there was a status update saying How do I find friends ? That’s easy – someone should update the laconi.ca source to use the Windows Live Contact API . So when you are the first person on the scene, your contacts could be stored Read More...
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Jetlagged, Spammed and SUPER ANNOYED!

Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:47 PM by alogan
I got an email from a friend ( from his email address ) I hadn’t heard from for a long time – turns out it was most probably unsolicited email sending on behalf of my friend from a web site which used his Messenger contacts as a pre-qualified set of targets. Read More...
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Coding horror brings screen scraping and credential collection to the main stream with shame post

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 8:21 AM by alogan
for Contacts: We (Windows Live) have an API , GOOG have an API , YHOO have an API – use it – don’t screen scrape. Check out this article where they school <redacted> on screen scraping: I'm willing to give <redacted> the benefit of the doubt Read More...
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Yahoo! ships a Address Book API – Welcome!

Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:46 AM by alogan
I gave a shout out to Google when they shipped , so it is only fair to call out the Yahoo! Address Book API which was announced today by Charles Wu. This is another step forward in allowing people to safely access their contacts on many different web Read More...
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This isn’t a C&D

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 2:56 AM by alogan
Hi <redacted>, I’m Angus Logan and I work for the Windows Live Platform team . When I was using <redacted> I saw you were screen-scraping Hotmail and Gmail and lots of other places. Did you know we have a Contact API which provides you richer Read More...
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PRESS: Windows Live seeks to make social networking easier

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 10:43 PM by alogan
When I was in Australia I did a phone interview with Ashley Clark – below are a few snippets but head over to IT News to read the full article . The bulk of the interview was about Data Portability and what’s cooking in the Windows Live Platform . Microsoft Read More...
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Reaching out to screen scrapers – 1) unprofessional 2) puts your users at risk 3) way more effort

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:15 PM by alogan
its amazing how many companies screen scrape – i’m slowly reaching out the ones I come across – wondering what the strike rate will be :) Hi - Its angus logan from the WL Platform team @ Microsoft. I'd love to have a chat with you about the contact API Read More...
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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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