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 v3.5 which will enhance the user experience, make it easier to enable sharing via Messenger scenarios on your site (new sharing control), and enable new scenarios (e.g. people who don’t use Messenger will...
09-24-2009, 1:49 PM by lsteam

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 world’s largest social networks, MySpace. We just announced on the Windows Live Team blog, starting the week of September 14th, you can add a MySpace “Web Activity” to Windows Live so that you can bring...
09-14-2009, 11:22 AM by lsteam

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 the audience to vote for what sessions and content they would like. Simple really - and great - the most popular sessions get picked for the conference. There are some sessions I think are pretty interesting,...
09-03-2009, 1:28 PM by alogan

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/service is economically viable. Jorgen provided an update on the future of Windows Live ID's Open ID efforts: Currently, we do not have a schedule that I can publicly share for when we will release...
08-28-2009, 6:14 PM by kevinle

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 deeper access to the more than 500M Windows Live users and a more consistent programming interface for both our services and controls. We want to make it as easy as possible to consume and use Windows...
08-21-2009, 9:39 AM by david.treadwell

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 Live Messenger to make it social. Photobucket visual search is a great example of how the activity of searching for images can be turned into a rich and compelling social experience, taking full advantage...
06-23-2009, 11:49 AM by kevinle

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 around the corner from the Moscone Conference Center. What's in it for me? Get the State of the Nation from our social media guru (TBA) Build a web app that uses Messenger APIs with the Messenger...
05-19-2009, 6:02 AM by kevinle

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 the Web as a way for people to interact, communicate and share with each other using the World Wide Web. Experiences that were once solitary such as reading news or browsing one's photo albums have now...
04-21-2009, 9:00 AM by lsteam

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 talking about the technology, adoption, and when Microsoft (we) will roll our preview Open ID and Portable Contacts endpoints into production (nothing to announce right now). Microsoft is a proponent of...
04-03-2009, 3:02 PM by alogan

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 Sessions Messaging / Presence : On Wednesday we announced the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, which is a set of controls and libraries that enable you to connect Windows Live Messenger users and their...
03-23-2009, 6:29 PM by alogan