Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Welcome to the Windows Live for Developers Blog

by Angus Logan via Windows Live for Developers on 6/16/2010 8:50:45 PM

Hi everyone, I’m Angus Logan (@anguslogan), the Senior Technical Product Manager for Messenger Connect. As we lead up to the launch of Messenger Connect, I want to start a conversation with app developers and marketers. We are consolidating a few of our Windows Live developer related blogs into one place… here!

We hope this blog will complement the Inside Windows Live blog, which Chris Jones describes as “dedicated to software engineers, web industry insiders, and to our most passionate Windows Live customers, those who want to dig a little deeper into how we build our services and how they’re used worldwide”.

The posts will include but are not be limited to:

• Code tips and tricks - code-a-plenty from JavaScript to RESTful endpoints with a little AuthZ/N mixed in.
• User experience guidance - Most motivation for using something like Messenger Connect is to make life easier for users. People who don’t know what connecting is should be guided by an intuitive user experience to connected bliss. There are lots of tricks we are constantly learning in the social web space; we’ll cover some of those here.
• Trends & emerging specifications - I love the community around the social web. The technology moves fast and the concepts do as well. As emerging specifications or trends that relate to Windows Live come up, we’ll post our thoughts and ask you for yours.
• Measurability - Writing code is fun, but even science experiments need measurement. At the Open ID User Experience workshop in Chicago, I mentioned the most important thing for the year will be web sites/developers showing value for all the social technologies they integrate. I’m a bit of a metrics nerd. I will definitely cover how you can measure the impact of integrating social into your site/app. If we didn’t measure, how else would you know which Feature to kill (WARNING: Dave McClure’s presentations aren’t for the faint hearted)
• Service updates - We’ll use this blog to keep you informed of upcoming service, policy/guidance, and technical changes

If you are interested in connecting with the Windows Live audience, subscribe now – if there are other things you’d love us to cover, leave a comment below.