Surely you know your Windows Live Home page. But did you know that you can customize it to suit your needs? Here is how this works.

“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?

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.

“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 [...]

„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. [...]

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 going [...]

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 will reflect [...]

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 [...]

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.
Facebook Chat [...]