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Announcing Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.5: better UI, faster development, richer experience for non-Messenger users
We’ve been working hard on the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows you to connect your web site to 330M+ people who use Windows Live Messenger every month! Today we’d like to announce the availability of the Messenger Web Toolkit v3... more
Engineering the Windows Live / MySpace integration and Leveraging Activity Streams
My name is Rob Dolin, I work as an engineer on the Windows Live Social team and I’m honored to have the opportunity to guest blog here at http://dev.live.com/ about one of our latest (and IMHO most exciting) features, our integration with one of the... more
What do you want to see @ SXSW - vote it up!
Angus Logan here from the Live Services team, and I am starting to get pretty excited about the SXSW Conference coming up in March 2010. One of the great things about the conference is that you get to decide what you want to see there. It is up to th... more
Lessons learned from Windows Live ID's foray into Open ID
Yesterday the WLID guys shared some interesting stuff they learned from their OpenID CTP. CTPs are often used to get feedback from developers, validate ideas, and/or correct the course of an effort. Sometimes they are even used to prove the feature/s... more
Important Updates to Live Services
Hi Everyone, I wanted to give you some important updates on our developer services as we prepare for the next release of Windows Live. We are focused on making the next release of Windows Live the very best for you. Our vision is to provide you with... more
Photobucket builds a rich and social visual search with Windows Live Messenger
Imagine a great consumer experience that provides visual search and the ability to share photos with your friends via IM – that is what Photobucket landed this week by using Silverlight to create a rich visual search and combining it with Windows Liv... more
Windows Live Messenger Hackathon in San Francisco: May 27th!
Join the Windows Live Messenger team to learn how to integrate Messenger capabilities into your Web site. The Windows Live Messenger Hackathon takes place on May 27, 2009 at Microsoft's offices on 835 Market St in San Francisco - very cool digs just... more
The Social Web and Windows Live
Dare Obasanjo here, from the Live Services Program Management team. I'd like to talk a bit about the work we are doing to increase interoperability across the "Social Web." The term The Social Web has been increasingly used to describe the rise of... more
Windows Live Users Can Now Easily Sign Up for Sites Using RPX
Hey, Angus Logan here, I'm at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco - there is a great vibe and lots of action. I've been spending time with and learning a ton from some of the open stack crew, Joseph Smarr, David Recordon, and Chris Messina. We've been talk... more
MIX 09 Roundup: 8 Sessions on Live Services Available Now
Hey - Angus Logan here, back from MIX09 in Las Vegas. We had a whopping 8 sessions about identity/safety, messaging and the Live Framework at MIX - below are links to all of the sessions about Live Services, which you can view online. Overview of Se... more
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