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I have been meaning to write about building gadgets for Live.com. The instructions are out there, but they are scattered across multiple sites. We are also working on getting all of the documentation in one place. However, Mike Ormond did it before any
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We had a small release today (small on the UI changes, pretty significant in new support). We now support Opera (Opera 9 preview release only). We also did some fixes that should make it easier for developers to write gadgets. You can find more details
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Well, they are calling it modules. I have been spending some time looking at their documentation and the features they have. They do some things better and we do some things better. Is the personal homepage space heating up or what? :) I am excited to
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I just got an email from Dan about the MSN Homepage passing validation. I worked on this page for about 4 years before moving on to www.live.com . We released a version sometime this April that got very close to passing validation. We had some problems
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We had a release a couple days ago to sandbox gadgets and some other small bug fixes. An unintended side effect is the ability to host a third party gadget on other web sites. Donavon , gadget developer has a post explaining how he got it to work. This
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We released a number of changes today that could potentially break some gadgets on live.com. We had to make these changes to address concerns on running third party JavaScript code on the same domain as live.com. Steve has more information in microsoftgadgets
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Ray Ozzie wrote about the SSE extensions to RSS that Microsoft is advocating. I am excited to see this from us. I wonder what we can do with this in live.com. I bet someone comes up with a gadget that uses this specification. I also like it that we have
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I stood in line for the last Xbox launch, but I am not doing that this time. I will still get one before christmas, assuming I can find one. I am excited about the 360. I think it is going to be huge, not just for console gaming but also for Media Center
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I was wondering about this. We have what i think is a cool feature on www.live.com , where we don't steal focus but we still let users type in the search box without clicking on the box first. If you start typing in the address bar, we don't steal focus
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Sean Alexander has a posting today about all the gadgets available for Live.com. I am amazed by what the community has been able to do in a week. My favorite gadget is the Windows Live Favorites one. We are already upto 50 gadgets. This is just awesome.
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We released live.com and immediately got dinged for a lot of errors when reading feeds, among others. I am glad to say that at least that one issue has been fixed. We were tracking the feeds that were being added, anonymously of course, so we could do
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Whoo. What a month! It has been a pretty hectic time for me lately. Good news is it is all coming to fruition soon. My daughter was born on the 8th of October. Unfortunately, i have not spent a lot of time with her yet. Hopefully i will be able to spend
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I like Virtual Earth . The interface is slick, but i really like the ability to do a local search. I have used it to map out some trips in the past. I wanted to go to a bunch of electronics stores today and i tried to create my trip. I found though you
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I just found about another ajaxian portal - http://www.netvibes.com/ . Looks quite good to me. It will be interesting to see how the page evolves. There are now at least four portals that i know of: www.start.com www.google.com/ig www.netvibes.com www.protopage.com
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I have been asked a number of times why we do not work properly in Opera and Safari. I have also seen a lot of blog entries knocking us for the same reason. I have been meaning to write about that but Scott has a blog entry describing exactly what the
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