Archive: ‘Web Services’ Category

Reminder: Windows Live Events is closing

1 comment May 30th, 2010

As previously announced, the Windows Live Events web service is retiring. After 31 May 2010, you will not be able to access any data stored within Events.

Windows Live Alerts—have they fallen asleep?

Comments Off January 5th, 2010
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“Alerts delivers the latest information that’s important to you,” claims Microsoft. But can Windows Live Alerts still compete with RSS feeds, social network status updates, tweets and all other real-time news?

Complicated Messenger Library

Comments Off November 9th, 2009

I am really disappointed. I spent the past 3 hours on figuring out how to get the display picture from a user that is signed in with Windows Live Delegated Authentication.

What happened to my.live.com?

Comments Off October 21st, 2009

“Windows Live Personalised Experience”—this is what Wikipedia calls my.live.com, the successor of start.com. This service allowed you to put together your own home page with gadgets and other stuff to get you a home on the Web. Much like iGoogle, to be honest. Frozen project, it seems. Dead project? Let’s look at an old post [...]

¿Qué tal? The Messenger Web Toolkit in your language

1 comment July 8th, 2009

„Schön dass du da bist!“ « Bienvenue chez moi ! » “¡Bienvenido en mi sitio web!” If you are running a non-English website, you will be glad to hear that it is now possible to use the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit in your own language; over 40 languages are supported. Siebe Tolsma, Software Development [...]

Update to the Web Toolkit

1 comment April 30th, 2009

Keiji Kanazawa just announced an update to the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. He states: With this update, The Messenger Web Toolkit UI Controls should work better in IE6 We have changed the sign in text from “IM Here” to “Sign In” to make it more clear what it does Performance should be better when [...]

Windows Live Profile Updates: Facebook, Last.fm and more!

Comments Off April 28th, 2009

Since yesterday, the list of Web Activity providers available for integration into your Windows Live Profile has been extended. Major providers have been added, some of them had been announced back in January. Here are some of the most interesting updated bits: Facebook is now a Web Activity provider (Add to Windows Live Profile). This [...]

Messenger Web Toolkit on MSDN Channel 9′s Knowledge Chamber

Comments Off April 18th, 2009

From what I have seen from the MIX09 web conference until today, there is quite a big interest in the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit and its features. Adding Messenger to your own website kind of amazes people and thus the interest in being able to do that is quite big as it allows you [...]

Live Messenger Web Bar vs. Facebook Chat: Intentionally similar?

6 comments April 1st, 2009

When I saw the first screenshots of the Web Bar, part of the new Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, I was amazed. Not amazed by the features it has, not by its look, but amazed by its similarity with the Facebook Chat bar. Look yourself: Let us have a look at the similarities in detail. [...]

Chat in Messenger within my blog

Comments Off March 27th, 2009

As you may have seen, my blog is using a new Windows Live service, enabling you to chat with your contacts in real-time! If you haven’t noticed it yet, just look at the bottom of the mynetx – Windows Live Enhanced homepage. What you see there is the new Windows Live Messenger Web Bar, part [...]