You’ll be glad to hear that Live Maps UK is no longer redirecting Multimap – well done for all your feedback – we made a difference and changed their mind! Power to the people!
Tag: Live Services
Mix UK Videos Up
Woah been a busy past couple of weeks. Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs! Although I didn’t move far it was fairly stressful and I’m now left with a weekend of unpacking. Oh and joy, there was no BT phone line…
Getting started with Live Services and Virtual Earth
I just finished putting together some info for a partner who was interested in learning how and why to develop their applications incorporating Live Services and Virtual Earth etc. I thought you might be interested, so here it is: Virtual Earth Interactive SDK http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ Silverlight Airlines Routes Demo http://silverlight.net/samples/1.1/SilverlightAirlines/Run/default.html Service Level Agreement for Virtual Earth…
Windows Live Messenger Control and Presence API
Angus has just announced information on his blog about how to incorporate an IM chat window in a website, for example a blog. With this, as a Live Messenger user, you can receive IM’s from people that visit your website which is a great way for people and businesses to get in contact. This won’t…
Windows Live ramping up
Times certainly are exciting for Scott and the boys over at the community site for all things Live – www.liveside.net. Virtual Earth I’ve been wanting to blog about the new version of Virtual Earth, for example, and describe some of the excellent new features as well as the improved, much more slick looking UI -…
Photo stitching at Mix UK 07
I’m just prepping a demo for tomorrow and am going to include the new panoramic photo feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery which you can download as part of the Windows Live Pack which wraps up all the various Live apps and puts them in a convenient and easy to use installer. With the new…
Live.com velocity
Interesting eye chart from Compete.com which shows the “velocity” of Live.com relative to google.com and yahoo.com. For those of you who don’t know, Live.com is Microsoft’s internet search engine. Compete.com describe velocity as: Velocity is an effective way to measure the impact of planned (or unplanned) events, such as new advertising campaigns, product/service launches or…
Windows Live Quick Apps – Mashup apps with source code
Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps “Contoso Bicycle Club” and “Contoso University” were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft UK. They incorporate many Live Services some of which are still in…