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Leaving Microsoft

As I've been wrapping up our 2nd generation cross-domain in-browser communication channel API, I've been nosing around and thinking about what my next project should be. There's no shortage of tasks to do in Windows Live, and I had a few leads for interesting Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 2:17 PM by dthorpe | 9 Comments

Cross-Domain Communication Using Domain Lowering

More than a few blog posts ago I stated my intent to publish a series of articles on cross-domain communication techniques. More time has passed than I had intended, but at last here is the start of that series of articles. The series will explore progressively Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:52 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

TMobile HotSpot at Home Phones Get Smarter

TMobile announced this week the addition of the Blackberry 8230 "Curve" to the list of cell phones supported by TMobile's HotSpot@Home WiFi phone service. This is a big step up in handset functionality over the minimalistic handsets that the service launched Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:07 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments
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Halo 3 Launched!

Halo 3 has officially hit the streets! Besides the game itself, check out the supporting info on the web, which happens to be implemented in Silverlight: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/halo3.aspx Having been out of the loop on the whole Halo series Read More...
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 11:15 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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MIX07 UK Podcast with Craig Murphy

I sat down with Craig Murphy to chat about Windows Live and life in general at MIX07 UK. Craig has just posted a podcast of that conversation. I've known Craig for many years through the Delphi community. I think we first met in person in 2001 at "The Read More...
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 10:37 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

MIX07 UK Blogging

The title of honorary MIX07 UK stenographer goes to Sebastien Lambla (aka SerialSeb) for transcribing nearly word for word just about every session he attended this week, in realtime! Check out the detail in his notes on "Building Next Generation Web Read More...
Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 8:54 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

PodCast Interview on LiveSide.Net

Angus and I had a chat with the guys from LiveSide.Net during the MIX07 UK conference this week. Check it out! Read More...
Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 8:20 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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The Casual Traveler

Angus laments getting hit unusually hard by jet lag on this UK trip. This is particularly amusing considering he's recently imported to Redmond from Australia and generally has far too much energy to safely occupy one body. I suspect he owns an espresso Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:29 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Blogging at ReMix07 London

I'm sitting next to Angus in the back row of the ReMix07 London keynote. Angus is blogging in Windows Live Writer, and the guy on the other side of him is blogging in Windows Live Writer. Everyone loves a parade, so here I am blogging in Windows Live Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:00 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments
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Halo 3 Promo Videos Running on Silverlight Streaming

The promotional campaign for the new Halo 3 FPS has begun with a series of in-game and thematic live action videos. High-def 2mbps videos are here: http://halo3.msn.com/videosHD.aspx Lower bandwidth versions of the same are here: http://halo3.msn.com/videos.aspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:32 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

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

Where Have We Heard That Before?

Yesterday the Seattle Times ran an article about Penny Arcade and the overnight success of the Penny Arcade Expo . I had to laugh a little when the article used the words "imploded" and "E3" in the same sentence. I used pretty much the same pairing of Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 2:55 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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Windows Live SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly known as Folders) is now in beta, enabling end users to store arbitrary data on the web under password access control. Files can be accessed over http(s) from web pages and from stand-alone client applications (thanks to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:58 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

New In The Windows Live Contacts Control: Incremental Search!

Another month, another release! This month we've added incremental search to the contacts and presence controls to make it easier to find a particular contact in your haystack of hundreds of family, friends, and coworkers. Just type in a few letters of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:01 PM by dthorpe | 6 Comments

Black Pixels Cost Less?

I was recently introduced to a Google search wrapper called www.blackle.com . It's sole claim to fame is that it displays a Google-like search page, but with a background color of black. Why? Blackle.com claims that black pixels require less energy to Read More...
Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 11:15 AM by dthorpe | 6 Comments
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