Lots of exciting stuffs are being announced at the Microsoft World Partner Conference (WPC.)
Windows Live Quick Apps (Beta) are showcase online sites that demonstrate the applications that can be built using the Windows Live Services. Two Quick Apps were unveiled today:
For example, the Bicycle Club demo site shows a mashup using Windows Live's Virtual Earth with Silverlight Streaming services to synchronize a simulated bike ride on the map with a video -- very cool!
For many months now we have been talking up our "Software + Services" strategy.
A key concept in this new world is the notion of "Web 2.0"-type mashups, where web applications are created by composing & aggregating services available over the Internet, rather than building them ground-up.
Given a rich set of services and well-designed programming model, web sites can be built and deployed quickly, fully leveraging on the services and the network as a platform for content storage.
Windows Live provide just such a platform for developers, offering core service-based capabilities such as Live Spaces, Silverlight Streaming, Live ID, etc. while ensuring availability, reliability, and security.
More Quick Apps should be forthcoming. Meanwhile, get the source code for the two released applications on CodePlex.
