Windows Live Messenger Library Beta Released!
[画像:WLM]
The Windows Live Messenger Library is a JavaScript client library which allows third parties to securely provide web based instant messaging to their users. Developers can build presence-enabled instant messaging applications that web site visitors can use to interact with each other as well as with Windows Live Messenger client users. They can define the look & feel to create their own IM experience.
The Windows Live Messenger Library securely authenticates users, therefore their Windows Live ID credentials are safe.The library exposes the core text-based messaging functionality, contact list and presence management. WLML works cross browser and cross platform on Windows and Macs.
Key Takeaways
- End Users can now interact and share experiences with their Messenger contacts in more places (more securely than other libraries).
- ThirdParty.com can increase stickiness by delivering immersive, differentiated experiences and can increase reach by leveraging their user’s social relationships from Windows Live Messenger.
- Developers can use JavaScript (which they already know) or C# (via Script#) to fully define the messaging experience cross-browser without needing to develop their own messaging platform.
- Microsoft can increase the overall value of the Windows Live network and provide a safer alternative to rogue web Messenger libraries.
Related: Vista SP1 accidentally released yesterday
Related Posts:
The Next Generation PC for Blind users
Siafu is a PC designed to give sight-challenged people a more intuitive computing experience. It gives digitally tactile interface that completely revolutionizes the way that blind people interact with a computer.
Siafu lays flat like a tablet and allows the user to fully interact with it by way of touch. The surface of Siafu utilizes a "conceptual material" called magneclay, which can morph upward into any shape. This means that Siafu can generate infinitely refreshable Braille and then display it in a book format. Siafu also has the ability to display images as a 3D relief, which allows blind users to experience digital images and graphic layouts for the first time.
Related Posts:
Russian Ad for Gmail
GOS posted an interesting post which includes a video ad created by Saatchi & Saatchi Moscow to promote Gmail in Russia. I thought you might like this.
Related Videos:
YouTube was down for nearly half-an-hour
Today I was gathering some video's from YouTube, suddenly the site was inaccessible for me, I thought this may be a problem of my internet connection, but when I tried other sites, they were working normally.
I searched for information about this problem on Digg, I found some peoples were saying that was DNS highjack, where news.com only reports it was down for around 40 minutes, no one knows what is the actual problem was.
According to yelvington.com
YouTube has disappeared from the Internet, apparently the victim of hackers who managed to gain control of its root DNS record. A whois request for Youtube.com returns this:
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
YOUTUBE.COM... and all packets destined for YouTube are disappearing into the network of PCCW Telecom of Hong Kong.
UPDATE: OpenDNS explains "Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube." Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.
After 30-40 minutes YouTube is back.
Related Posts:
One out of every Three Clicks on a Google or Yahoo ad is Fraudulent
Click Forensics has released some data on click fraud (fake clicks on Internet ads) in the fourth quarter of 2007 and for the full year. According to this data, nearly one out of every three clicks on a Google or Yahoo ad is fraudulent - TechCrunch.
Click Forensics also released the handy heat map which shows the countries where the most click fraud is originating. The greatest percentage of click fraud originating from countries outside North America came from India (4.3 percent) Germany (3.9 percent) and South Korea (3.7 percent).
Related Posts:
Vista SP1 accidentally released yesterday
ZDNet reports, Yesterday some people got a surprise - Windows Vista SP1 coming down the Windows Update pipes. Turns out someone at Microsoft flipped the wrong switch.
..Today, a build of SP1 was posted to Windows Update and it was inadvertently made available to a broad group. The build was intended only for our more technically advanced testers, and was meant to only be offered to those with a specific registry key set on their PC. For general availability, we are still planning to make SP1 broadly available in the mid-March timeframe.
To get Vista SP1 you have to wait until mid-March. You were lucky if you got it in yesterdays accidental release.
Related Posts:
Firefox: Celebrating 500 Million Downloads
[画像:Firefox 500 Million Downloads]
Congratulations Firefox!
The most popular open-source web browser "Firefox" crossed the 500 million downloads. The Firefox was originally named Phoenix and the 1.0 version was released in November 2004. In September 2007 Firefox crossed 400 million mark and today it reached the milestone. Users will soon get the latest version 3.0 of Firefox.
To celebrate this milestone, Mozilla is inviting people to play a game over at freerice.com to help donate rice to those in need. They said,
With your help we can break another milestone today with FreeRice.com by donating 500 million grains of rice.
Related Posts: