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MSN's The Podium 08 - Built On Silverlight

MSN just launched The Podium '08 as part of their 2008 US Presidential election coverage. The Podium '08 brings together data on presidential candidates for voters and election followers to explore by topic and compare candidates head to head on specific Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 4:54 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

See Popfly at MakerFaire: May 19-20 San Mateo Fairgrounds

Hey, whadayaknow: John and the Popfly team will be at the O'Reilly Maker Faire this weekend in San Mateo. As a hard core tinkerer myself (don't ask what's in my garage, ask what's not!), I've been following Make: magazine since discovering it last summer. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:43 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Popfly: Mashups Made Easy

Today John Montgomery 's NPT team launched Microsoft Popfly , a web-based development environment for building web applications with little or no code. John shares some background and history on his blog , but what you really ought to see first is the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:05 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Print Labels With the Windows Live Contacts Control

I was installing a new label printer at home a little while ago and noticed mention of a developer SDK in the readme docs. (Yes, some people actually read the readme) I know from experience that getting text to land right side up on a target as small Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:26 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

LiveInABox - Windows Live Service APIs and Examples In One Convenient Location

LiveInABox is a collection of sample projects that show how to use the many Windows Live Services in your own web apps. It's a 4MB MSI that sets up the sample web apps to run on your localhost IIS server, so you can modify and experiment with them on Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:51 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Contacts Control Now Available in 9 Languages

We've just rolled out an update to the Windows Live Contacts control, adding language support for German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese! That's on top of the English, French, and Japanese we hacked together by hand earlier. If my fingers Read More...
Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 1:00 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Windows Live Contacts Control Shows Online Presence

This month's rev of the Windows Live Contacts Control adds a new "tile" view that displays the photos of your Windows Live IM contacts in the control, and makes starting an IM session with them a simple one-click operation. The top part of this screenshot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:35 PM by dthorpe | 4 Comments

Windows Live Contacts Gadget Beta Release

I'm pleased to announced the beta release of a new kind of web component: the Windows Live Contacts Gadget ! What's it for? The contacts gadget is client-side JavaScript that enables end users to use their Windows Live contacts (from Windows Live Mail/Hotmail Read More...
Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 4:00 PM by dthorpe | 25 Comments
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Map Your Mind: MindMap + VirtualEarth

Here's an interesting mashup: Michael Scherotter (the MindMap guy) has added address lookup and route finding to MindManager using Virtual Earth web services. He says the idea came to him at Mashup Camp , and took root in planning a family vacation. It's Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 10:51 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Mashup Camp 2006 Wrapup

Mashup Camp brought together some 400 people interested in developing web applications quickly by combining mutiple data sources or services in interesting ways. This being my first "unconference", I found the just-in-time and minimal organization of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:17 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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Mashup Camp: Identity discussion

This discussion, led by Johannes Ernst, sought to explore ways to improve the user experience in maintaining personal information across multiple web sites. Multiple logins on multiple sites are more than just a nuisance for the end user - a typical pattern Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:00 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Mashup Camp Photos

Mashup Camp is rolling along, purposefully on the edge of giddy chaos. It's an interesting mix of people - independent (for pay) developers, corporate devs, passionate hobbyists, venture capitalists, press, and service providers. Everybody is interested Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:09 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Mashup Camp! And a Crack of Thunder...

I'm off to Mashup Camp this week! Monday and Tuesday are pegged for Mashup University, with a more traditional conference session structure, and the unstructured (or just-in-time structured) mashup camp is on Wednesday. I'm told that last year's camp Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 11:27 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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