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Virtual Earth Developer Contest

March 15, 2009Community

Over on the ViaWindowsLive site they’re running a Virtual Earth contest. Simply submit an article or video about something cool you’re doing with Virtual Earth and you’re in the running.
You get a T-shirt just for entering (assuming your entry is valid , and there are a bunch of other prizes if yours is up [...]

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Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio Getting Started Guide

January 14, 2009Live

As Nick has mentioned we’ve released a Getting Started guide for the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio controls. The November CTP (details here, download here) has a bunch of controls for implementing Live Services in your web apps.
It includes ASP.NET controls for Contacts, Login status, Maps, Messenger chats, Silverlight streaming etc. The November [...]

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Live Mesh gains credibility

January 11, 2009Link

You’ve hopefully seen the news about Live Mesh winning the Best Technology Innovation of 2008 at the Crunchies.
I think this is an important award for Microsoft, since it indicates that there is at least some mainstream acceptance that they’re doing something cool and innovative (note: by mainstream, I’m talking about people in tech as a [...]

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Adobe Infinite Images and Deep Earth

December 22, 2008General

Adobe has been experimenting with it’s own image navigation & stitching together technology, and Infinite Images is the latest demonstration of it (see here for the ReadWriteWeb article).
You, me and every other Microsoft watcher will immediately see shades of Deep Zoom and perhaps a little Photosynth in this.
What’s cool about the the Adobe system [...]

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Live Mesh update on hold, Quality in focus

December 22, 2008Link

I think it’s interesting that the Live Mesh team decided to put their upcoming release on hold (as announced at the start of this month). Here’s their reasoning:
UPDATE: In the world of services, we have blackout periods where no updates are allowed. This is to ensure stability during, e.g., the holiday season when use of [...]

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Live Sync is Live

December 17, 2008Link

You know, I think I read Sarah Perez’s blog before just about anyone’s these days. She’s even ahead of Mary-Jo, Long Zheng, Steve Clayton, and *gasp*, TechCrunch.
Why? Take today’s post on Live Sync for example. Informative (she explains that Windows Live Sync is the new FolderShare), clarifying (she explains the difference between Live Sync and [...]

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Windows Live Essentials refresh

December 17, 2008Link

Yes, it’s still a beta, but they’re looking good. Microsoft has released the latest version of their Live Essentials pack, including Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Family Safety, Toolbar and more. Get them here.
My main interest was Windows Live Writer, which is one of my must have applications that just keeps getting better [...]

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Live Services Jumpstart Day 2

December 8, 2008Live

Another brain expanding day! I was so impressed with the event that I checked my impressions with a few other attendees – I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just a case of me being so naive about this stuff, that any new information was a revelation But no, there were many [...]

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Live Services Jumpstart – Sydney – Dec 8 and 9

November 20, 2008Community

There’s only a few spots left for the Live Services Jumpstart in Sydney.
It’s an intensive technical training session on Microsoft’s consumer web platform technologies. It’s being run by James McCutcheon and Dr Neil Roodyn (two of my new work colleagues at nsquared) and covers more than 20 technical sessions, hands-on labs and the opportunity to [...]

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