As I've been wrapping up our 2nd generation cross-domain in-browser communication channel API, I've been nosing around and thinking about what my next project should be. There's no shortage of tasks to do in Windows Live, and I had a few leads for interesting...

More than a few blog posts ago I stated my intent to publish a series of articles on cross-domain communication techniques. More time has passed than I had intended, but at last here is the start of that series of articles. The series will explore progressively...

TMobile announced this week the addition of the Blackberry 8230 "Curve" to the list of cell phones supported by TMobile's HotSpot@Home WiFi phone service. This is a big step up in handset functionality over the minimalistic handsets that the service launched...

Halo 3 has officially hit the streets! Besides the game itself, check out the supporting info on the web, which happens to be implemented in Silverlight: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/halo3.aspx Having been out of the loop on the whole Halo series...

I sat down with Craig Murphy to chat about Windows Live and life in general at MIX07 UK. Craig has just posted a podcast of that conversation. I've known Craig for many years through the Delphi community. I think we first met in person in 2001 at "The...

The title of honorary MIX07 UK stenographer goes to Sebastien Lambla (aka SerialSeb) for transcribing nearly word for word just about every session he attended this week, in realtime! Check out the detail in his notes on "Building Next Generation Web...

Angus and I had a chat with the guys from LiveSide.Net during the MIX07 UK conference this week. Check it out!

Angus laments getting hit unusually hard by jet lag on this UK trip. This is particularly amusing considering he's recently imported to Redmond from Australia and generally has far too much energy to safely occupy one body. I suspect he owns an espresso...

I'm sitting next to Angus in the back row of the ReMix07 London keynote. Angus is blogging in Windows Live Writer, and the guy on the other side of him is blogging in Windows Live Writer. Everyone loves a parade, so here I am blogging in Windows Live...

The promotional campaign for the new Halo 3 FPS has begun with a series of in-game and thematic live action videos. High-def 2mbps videos are here: http://halo3.msn.com/videosHD.aspx Lower bandwidth versions of the same are here: http://halo3.msn.com...

MSN just launched The Podium '08 as part of their 2008 US Presidential election coverage. The Podium '08 brings together data on presidential candidates for voters and election followers to explore by topic and compare candidates head to head on specific...

Yesterday the Seattle Times ran an article about Penny Arcade and the overnight success of the Penny Arcade Expo . I had to laugh a little when the article used the words "imploded" and "E3" in the same sentence. I used pretty much the same pairing of...

Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly known as Folders) is now in beta, enabling end users to store arbitrary data on the web under password access control. Files can be accessed over http(s) from web pages and from stand-alone client applications (thanks to...

Another month, another release! This month we've added incremental search to the contacts and presence controls to make it easier to find a particular contact in your haystack of hundreds of family, friends, and coworkers. Just type in a few letters of...

I was recently introduced to a Google search wrapper called www.blackle.com . It's sole claim to fame is that it displays a Google-like search page, but with a background color of black. Why? Blackle.com claims that black pixels require less energy to...

The Windows Live Web Controls now support custom colors! The Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control now accept additional parameters to specify the text and background colors of the inner and outer regions of the controls...

At last! T-Mobile has rolled out their long-awaited HotSpot @Home service nationwide. This enables you to make and receive cellphone calls over WiFi networks when in range of a WiFi access point and seamlessly transfer calls between WiFi and cellular...

Looks like the folks at terralever are going full-bore on Silverlight : They've implemented a delightfully addictive puzzle game called ZeroGravity using the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha runtime. Check it out! It'll be interesting to see how long before my #5...

Dan Farber writes that LinkedIn 's Chairman, Reid Hoffman, has commented that he plans to roll out developer APIs to access the LinkedIn contacts database. Great news! The downside: It won't be ready until 2008. Bummer. How much further will the other...

The June issue (Journal 12) of The Architecture Journal focuses on web architecture. I was delighted to be invited to contribute, and wrote "Secure Cross-Domain Communication in the Browser" for this issue. In the article I describe a somewhat bizarre...

In the better late than never department, a video interview with Koji and me from the week prior to MIX07 is now posted on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=317385 Yay! Thanks Catherine for pushing it on through.

Our little web controls are growing up so fast! We've migrated the Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control to new servers in the Microsoft datacenters and a new domain name: controls.services.live.com . The web controls will...

When people ask what I worked on at Google and I answer "undisclosed browser technology", I think some folks think I'm just being coy or obnoxious. The truth is, I'm required to say that publicly and privately until Google publicly announces the technology...

You've got to see it to believe it: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Mmmm-mmm good. It may be time soon to dust off those great old Avalon Hill board games and look at implementing them on this table - without the thousands of chit markers . Twilight...

Last week Kevin Ledley, keeper of the dev.live.com content, asked me for a bit of help to get a Silverlight video player working. He wanted to "borrow" the cool scrolling video list and video player from our sister site, msdn2.microsoft.com and set it...