Windows Live API to be opened
In Day 2 of Mix ’07 Brian Arbogast announced new Windows Live API which are now easy to use, simpler licensing and ready to go.
with Mix ’07 – it was taken on 22/Oct/2004 in Gurgaon)
Microsoft is certainly late to the game, but can they pull it off from behind this time, let us wait and see.
- Videos Support – SilverLight Streaming
- Spaces Photos – Currently Read-only, soon to be Write-Read
- Windows Live Contacts – Access to Hotmail
- Virtual Earth Maps
- Add Live Search to your site
They are introducing a new concept – User Controlled Privacy Model. By this Users can limit access of their data to a particular domain. I think this is good from a business and long-term sustainability stand-point.
All the services are free up to a limit and then a predictable annual charge.
There were demos about a mashup by Microsoft on blog and Virtual Earth and by Match.com using Windows Live APIs. I was surprised to learn about the scale of Match.com is responsible for 10% of all marriages that happen in USA, 60K customers every day, 55 Million emails every month. It was interesting they are also an 100% Microsoft Shop (IIS/SQL Server/.NET) and push a giga-bit of traffic every second. Their mash-up with Live Search especially the anonymous Messenger Chat using Live Alerts was cool (see the second image below).
