Our awesome marketing intern (Connor Lanman) released a kickass video today (and it is getting some love).
Not sure I like it as much as his previous work
Nice work Connor.
Mona just wrote a post about the Messenger Companion:
”Messenger Companion is a browser plugin [for Internet Explorer 7 & 8] which lets you quickly share and discover what your friends have shared online. It lets you view the links your friends are sharing, comment on them, and even share something fun you’ve come across. And if you’ve connected your social networks to Windows Live, Messenger Companion works across all of them.”
This is super cool because it brings social to the browser. If your friends share something in Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Messenger, and you browse to that site, it will blip, letting you join the conversation.
Check out the post
I just posted on Inside Windows Live and the Windows Live for Developers Blog about Messenger Connect (tons of info).
Below is my interview on Channel9
I just posted over on our new Windows Live for Developer blog “Messenger Connect – Making your data more portable while retaining control over its use”
A few of our principles:
Check out the post and a shout out to Ori Amiga for his help with the post.
When I was in Amsterdam for The Next Web conference, I got to borrow a few iPhones and demo the Windows Live Messenger for iPhone for the first time.
I really like the app, you can get it today if you are in US, Canada, UK, or France (appstore)
My favorite things:
Check it out
At Google I/O I was on a panel with lots of other social web people. Check it out on YouTube
This morning Anthony Rose posted the massive feature shopping list of the new BBC iPlayer.
For people who aren’t from the UK, the iPlayer is a big deal. It makes the BBC’s awesome content available for viewing online and on many different devices for (I think) 7 days. (Spooks is what 24 could have been).
There are LOTS of new features, but one which I care a lot of about: Messenger integration. You should definitely read the entire post but here is an excerpt of the Messenger integration, and if you are from the UK, try out the beta.
8. Watch with friends And now something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site: the ability to watch programmes with friends. If you already have a Windows Live Messenger account you can see which of your Windows Live Messenger friends (and other instant messenger services to be added in due course) are in iPlayer right now and what they're watching, and even how far into the programme they are. You can then sync your iPlayer with theirs and chat with them in real time, all within the iPlayer site. Here's how it works: On all TV playback pages in iPlayer you'll see a button to add the IM chat widget to your iPlayer pages. If you're a Messenger user and this is of interest to you, click the Get Started button. After signing in to Windows Live Messenger with your Messenger credentials, you'll now see an extra panel that shows which of your Messenger contacts are online and in iPlayer right now: Separately, while you're watching a programme, anytime you're feeling excited about that programme or even just a particular moment in the programme, you can shout about it to your Messenger friends - simply type whatever comes to mind into the text box and hit the Shout button - all your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now will get the message, and may then choose to sync their iPlayer to yours and join you to watch and chat together. By the way, your shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now - they won't go to contacts who are not in iPlayer - so you don't need to worry about spamming contacts who don't live in the UK or who aren't interested in your shouts of "It's the Stig!" or whatever. The Messenger that you can add to your iPlayer site is a JavaScript implementation of the Windows Live Messenger client - i.e. your private chat conversations travel over the same MSN network as regular Messenger IM chat. Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
Here's how it works: On all TV playback pages in iPlayer you'll see a button to add the IM chat widget to your iPlayer pages. If you're a Messenger user and this is of interest to you, click the Get Started button.
After signing in to Windows Live Messenger with your Messenger credentials, you'll now see an extra panel that shows which of your Messenger contacts are online and in iPlayer right now:
Separately, while you're watching a programme, anytime you're feeling excited about that programme or even just a particular moment in the programme, you can shout about it to your Messenger friends - simply type whatever comes to mind into the text box and hit the Shout button - all your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now will get the message, and may then choose to sync their iPlayer to yours and join you to watch and chat together.
By the way, your shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now - they won't go to contacts who are not in iPlayer - so you don't need to worry about spamming contacts who don't live in the UK or who aren't interested in your shouts of "It's the Stig!" or whatever.
The Messenger that you can add to your iPlayer site is a JavaScript implementation of the Windows Live Messenger client - i.e. your private chat conversations travel over the same MSN network as regular Messenger IM chat.
Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
I’ll be in the valley this week for Internet Identity Workshop and I predict it will be action packed. It is always exciting to see the usual suspects (David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, Eric Sachs, Eran Hammer-Lahav). This one should be interesting given the the recent hype about the Open ID Connect straw man.
Additionally, this is the first IIW since OAuth 2.0 became somewhat real (well, there is a draft in the IETF).
Sarah Faulker from the Windows Live ID and I will be there, maybe we’ll see you.
Always have backups. This was mission control in the office across from mine.
Rocking a few props for Queens Day
Nice shot of the new Messenger
On stage video call is insanity. Toni was hiding in another room out the back so there wasn’t audio feedback
Many more photos in this album
Yesterday we previewed the new version of Messenger and today in Amsterdam John Richards and I did some demos and introduced Messenger Connect.
At The Next Web I demo’d the Messenger iPhone client, some activities integration into Windows Phone 7, a few Messenger connect demos (web & windows phone 7), some high def video chat, nice shared photo viewing experiences, comments flowing back and forth between Facebook and Messenger, social activities from across my favorite social networks.
lots of stuff. These two posts (Messenger & Messenger Connect) are the best places for you to get the info.
I’ll post a link to the video if I get one.