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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

Reach your people everywhere, in real time!
For users of the Web, being able to connect to friends and build social networks is becoming more important every day. Today, we are releasing the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit--a set of controls and libraries that enable you to connect Wi... more

Live Framework Update Released
The Live Framework team has released the April 2009 CTP update for the Live Framework. This update includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and improved functionality. For the details on what's new, see the release announcement on the... more

Two Web Controls Being Retired, New Stuff on the Way
Next month, at the MIX09 conference, we’ll be releasing some cool new bits. As such, we’ll be deprecating a bit of our current functionality later this month (details below). Thanks to everyone who has tried our current technologies and given feedbac... more

Making the Internet a Safer Place
Hey - this is Angus Logan from the Live Services team! Yesterday was Safer Internet Day and I was at the Open ID UX summit. There are two things close to my heart, internet safety and user experience, and I wanted to take a moment to post some things... more

Live Framework Tools January CTP Released
The Live Framework Tools team is pleased to announce the release of an update to the Community Technical Preview (CTP). The January CTP update addresses top customer issues and includes a new update notification feature to notify you whenever the too... more

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