Congrats to the Windows Live teams who picked up a trophy cabinet full of awards at this year’s Webware 100 awards. The competition is pretty tough starting out from 5000 websites and services, so it’s a great feat to pull off so many wins.
Here’s what the team had to say about it: The people have spoken! Windows Live wins Webware 100 awards
These of course are the consumer facing experiences but there’s a whole developer platform underpinning what goes into Windows Live, check out the APIs here: http://dev.live.com
One service that rocks is Windows Live Messenger. Messenger has been around for about 10 years now and it’s amassed 320 million users worldwide to become the number one free instant messenger service across Windows, Mac, Windows Mobile and Xbox 360.
We’re going to be down in San Francisco next week on Wednesday night with the team so why not stop by and learn how to integrate Live Messenger APIs! There’s free beer and pizza and Mark Ruxin (Chief Innovation Office) from McCann WorldGroup is presenting too! Registration is here – it’s free (BillG is picking up the tab) but spaces are limited – hurry!
With Live Services, it really doesn’t matter what platform your web app sits on or what language you use you can just drop in the Messenger Library (all client-side javascript) and enable some superb social experiences! Here’s a video showing what you can do, and check out the sample site: http://pulse.mslivelabs.com (takes a couple of secs for the server to spin up – it’s test m’kay ;-) )
Check out the learning page for the Messenger APIs – they rock!