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

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 Windows Live Messenger users and their friends with users of your Web site.  See a video demonstration. Windows Live Messenger is the most used instant messaging services world wide, with more than...
03-18-2009, 1:49 PM by kevinle

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 Live Framework team blog. To learn more about the Live Framework, see dev.live.com/liveframework....
03-12-2009, 2:25 PM by kevinle

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 feedback; please know that it has helped us in developing the richer functionality we’ll be providing at MIX and beyond. While we can’t say much more about what we’ll be releasing right now, we think you’ll love...
02-16-2009, 8:30 AM by lsteam

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 we've done recently at Microsoft to help make the internet a safer place: An update on enabling data portability by working with the largest library developers to make address book portability safer...
02-11-2009, 3:03 PM by lsteam

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 tools are updated.  For details about the fixes, check out the Live Framework blog and forum. ...
02-02-2009, 10:58 AM by lsteam