The Windows Live team have been busy over the past few months and recently launched the Windows Live Messenger APIs. This is basically split over three parts, the IM Control, the Windows Live Presence API and the Windows Live …

You’ve heard me stress in the past the importance of writing good JavaScript, especially when it comes to the complex code that makeup a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget. You’ve also heard me preach that you should always lint your code…

I was going to do a short article on how easy it is to extract information and generally mess around with Windows Live Spaces blog posts in your code using LINQ, however due to Microsoft’s lack of sticking to standards, …

The Windows Live team has announced a structured mobile developer program that provides access to Live services in order to build rich and interactive, connected applications. This program is open to ISV (Independent Software Vendors), OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers, like …

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo! is holding a special board of directors meeting "to determine, effectively, the fate of the company". No one has stepped up to save Yahoo! from Microsoft, according to Arrington, with SoftBank bowing …

In a recent post Angus Logan talks about adding someone else’s online presence as a link in a blog entry when you’re referring to them (it’s worth making a note how he gets the CID, as his example uses LiveSide …

OK, it’s formally called the Live Search Maps gadget, but that’s a mouthful so most people simply call it the "traffic gadget". The traffic gadget was taken off the market for a few months for "security reasons" (not unlike like …

As this affects (potentially) all aspects of development on the Microsoft .Net platform, whether it be adding plugings to Windows Live Writer, writing your own websites incorporating many of the Windows Live API’s that have been published or maybe writing …

We use a number of Windows Live services at LiveSide, and now our Community Server guru, Nick Brown, has started a CodePlex project, “Community Server Windows Live Addons”, at www.codeplex.com/CSLive. He’s starting out with two controls:

Currently there

If you head over to Codeplex you will find a number of Contoso Quick Applications posted there. Each one demonstrating various aspects of the Windows Live platform and showing you a “real world” style application that makes use of them, …