The new find a microsoft partner page is up - this is a mashup between Microsoft's partner enrollment database and Virtual Earth - very nice.
Technical info:
- SQL
- ASP.NET
- Virtual Earth SDK
- Clustering pushpins.
Nice work team!
We are pumping the Halo 3 Silverlight exclusive content at 2 Mbps via Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live.
Rated M (Mature) Mild Language, Violence, Blood and Gore. This image is used with the explicit permission of Microsoft Corporation © 2007 All Rights Reserved.
Rated M (Mature) Mild Language, Violence, Blood and Gore.
This image is used with the explicit permission of Microsoft Corporation © 2007 All Rights Reserved.
If you haven't used Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live you are missing a great opportunity to store and stream up to 4Gb of Silverlight Applications via our data centers!
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Remy the PM for Silverlight Streaming has more info.
From the Windows Live ID team blog*.
CardSpace is a new way to sign in securely and conveniently into websites. And now you can use CardSpace with Windows Live! Using CardSpace with Windows Live means you don’t use a password to sign-in to websites which accept Live ID credentials. Instead, just send your CardSpace card to Live ID to identify you and use your Hotmail or Windows Live Spaces. And it is incredibly easy to use CardSpace with your LiveID. Just Follow this link (here) to get going in minutes!
If you are using Windows Vista, you are all ready to use CardSpace cards! If you are on Windows XP (or Windows 2003), you will need couple of quick steps. Go get IE 7.0, our newest and coolest browser, if you don’t already have it and install .Net 3.0 with CardSpace support. Follow these two quick steps to add an Information Card to your Live ID. To install these components and add an Information Card to your Live ID account, visit the Windows LiveID Information Card management page. Also go to that page to make changes to CardSpace cards linked with your LiveID.
Once you’ve added an Information Card to your Live ID account, sign in using the Information Card. You will be amazed at how easy it is! BTW, that Windows Live ID CardSpace support is still a “Beta”. We are still working on it and know a bunch of things that could be better. But do let us know your wish list; it is always good to get feedback.
Nayna Mutha, Program Manager – LiveID & Rob Franco, Lead Program Manager - Windows CardSpace
Screencast by Nayna Mutha Streaming (public) (organized by Catherine Heller)
Visit the Manage your Information Cards site.
You will notice the green bar across the top in Internet Explorer and the certificate – this tells third parties they can trust who the site is (the bar to get a certificate like this is higher).
Sign in with your password
For security reasons you must enter your Windows Live™ ID password again.
The Windows CardSpace component will open and you will once again be shown that login.live.com is owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation verified by VeriSign.
If you have no Information Cards setup you are able to create a new card or restore a card.
Currently Windows Live™ ID supports Personal Cards (aka Self Issued cards)
You can enter the details of this card and then associate a picture, in this case the Information Card I am creating is my social card, which I use on social networks and non work-related sites. Because this is my social card I choose to include different degrees of personal information in the card.
You see the list of cards you have including the new one created.
You can preview the card before you send it, including where the card has been used before.
The Information Card has now successfully been associated with your Windows Live™ ID account.
When you click Finish the sign in process is completed.
Close the browser and revisit any page which requires a Windows Live™ Login (or go to login.live.com)
When you mouse over your account (if it is saved) you will see the choice of Password or Information Card, select Information Card
Now you have selected Information Card you can click Sign In.
The Windows CardSpace selection window will open and you can select the card you want to send.
You are now successfully sign in.
*I may have scooped the Windows Live ID team blog on posting this but it is up on visitmix too.
Limelight have released a press release:
Limelight Networks Teams With Microsoft to Deliver Next Generation Network Technology and Services Agreement Will Improve the Performance, Scalability, and Reliability of Microsoft's Online Services for Consumers TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 23 - Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) today announced that it has entered into a major new technology and services agreement with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) under which Limelight will help improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of Internet delivery of media content and online services, including video, music, games, software, and social media, across Microsoft's global Internet properties. Under the agreement, Microsoft and Limelight will cross-license certain technologies, consider joint development projects in the future, and cooperate on extending and improving their respective technology infrastructures. Microsoft and Limelight have also entered into a multi-year relationship under which Limelight Networks will continue to provide global media streaming and content delivery services to Microsoft. more...
TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 23 - Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) today announced that it has entered into a major new technology and services agreement with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) under which Limelight will help improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of Internet delivery of media content and online services, including video, music, games, software, and social media, across Microsoft's global Internet properties. Under the agreement, Microsoft and Limelight will cross-license certain technologies, consider joint development projects in the future, and cooperate on extending and improving their respective technology infrastructures. Microsoft and Limelight have also entered into a multi-year relationship under which Limelight Networks will continue to provide global media streaming and content delivery services to Microsoft.
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I work a lot and its cool to see other people do too.
This is a shot of the carpark out the front of my building on campus @ 4.40pm on Sunday :)
I saw a project plan on a whiteboard and there were deliverables on Saturday & Sunday too, it feels like a startup here.
ScottIsAFool has released his SkyDriveViewer up to CodePlex.
I'm not endorsing what Scott did, but it is kinda cool in lieu of the SkyDrive team releasing any real APIs yet (I give them a hard time about it every day :) )
Just out of interest - What APIs would you want to see for SkyDrive? (I dont work for that team but I'm interested)
If you want to see legitimate (not screenscraping) code up on Codeplex check out the Windows Live Platform Quick Apps (Demo & Demo)
Over on Nick's blog he posted a great video (18mins) for how he built the Community Server Live ID integration.
Very cool!
The guys over at Liveside have implemented nbDevelopment's add in for Community Server for Windows Live ID.
What does it do? It uses Windows Live ID Web Authentication as the authentication store for Community server.
Here are some pictures from Liveside. They have the standard Sign In dialog and then the next one with the Sign In using passport.
Also when you first authenticate it asks you to create a user or associate a user.
Very cool - go and grab it from nbDevelopment's blog.
Watch the video
Windows Live ID (formerly known as Passport) is the identity and authentication system for Microsoft online services. Currently, over 380 million users have credentials that work with Windows Live ID. Windows Live ID Web Authentication is a new offering that enables you to add Windows Live ID authentication to your own Web site (details can be found here).
A while back, Catherine sat down with Lynn Ayres to discuss Windows Live ID developer offerings. The conversation starts out with Lynn describing how she got into software (turns out Lynn is an avid online gamer J), and then transitions to Windows Live ID around 00:03:17 and how it relates to Passport (00:04:19). Windows Live ID scenarios are discussed around 00:07:00.
Demos start at 00:08:32, and include other Windows Live developer offerings – like the Windows Live Contacts control and the Windows Live Spaces Photo control; the specific code that uses the new Web Authentication (an HTML iframe element) can be seen around 00:13:24; the Windows Live ID Client SDK is demonstrated around 00:16:05.
A few notes regarding changes that have occurred since this video was recorded:
Lynn Ayres is a Program Manager on the Windows Live ID team (see their blog).
The interview was conducted by Catherine Heller, Windows Live Technical Evangelist.
I'm not sure who this guy (Alex Media) is but he is all over the Windows Live ID forum, all the recent discussion threads he's in there!