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Mesh developer preview points toward future direction
11/25/2008, Jamie
I have been lucky enough to get accepted onto the Mesh Development Tech Preview program. That is, a pre-beta version of Mesh that enables developers to experiment with building Mesh-enabled applications before the ability hits the mainstream. [If you’re ...
Podcast: Conversation with Robert
11/4/2008, Marcus
This week, we’re continuing to chat with some of our Windows Live Community members. Today’s podcast is with Robert, who works in IT in Missouri. He’s been a member of our community since the early days and as you’ll hear in the podcast, he has quite a ...
LiveFX: Windows Live Services and Live Mesh converge
11/3/2008, Jamie
Microsoft’s strategy for their Windows Live suite has drawn much criticism since its inception in November 2005 but of late the muddy waters have started to clear a little bit. Firstly we have had the latest beta releases of Windows Live Messenger, ...
Live Services move into the Live Framework
10/30/2008, Jamie
There’s loads of information coming out of this week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles…Windows 7, Office Web Apps and Windows Azure seem to be the most newsworthy. Of most interest to me though is news about the Live Framework, ...
What I've learnt about Live Mesh for consumers
9/23/2008, Jamie
I have been using Live Mesh beta since it was released in beta form in Spring 2008. In that time I've learnt about its various nuances and foibles so I’m sharing them here for your interest. I will assume you have a working knowledge of Live Mesh and ...
Live Mesh wishlist: Media searchability
8/31/2008, Jamie
I see there is a search box on Live Mesh's Live Desktop right now that is currently greyed out but I guess its safe to assume that at some point Live Mesh will be indexing all of the stuff in our Mesh so that we can search it. As I said in my blog ...
More on storing Messenger conversations on the Mesh
8/11/2008, Jamie
3 weeks ago I wrote a blog entry Storing Messenger conversations on the Mesh where I said: Currently I don't save my Live Messenger conversations ... Wouldn't it be cool if all of our Messenger conversations were automatically saved to the Mesh? That way ...
Mesh’s hidden agenda
7/28/2008, Jamie
I’m sat on my train home listening to last Friday’s (25th July 2008) episode of The Gillmor Gang; for those that don’t know The Gillmor Gang is a conglomerate of technology pontificators based in Silicon Valley that are headed by Steve Gillmor. On this ...
A day in the life of "non digital man"
7/7/2008, Jamie
Derek Dunlop, a colleague of mine at Conchango, has written an amusing account of his encounter with what he calls "non-digital man". Check it out at A Day In The Life of... NDM - "Non-Digital Man". He compares his own commute (with ...