Live Maps: Create a collection, help the team

re: Live Maps: Create a collection, help the team

SoulSolutions — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:04:34 GMT

Yes I have to agree with Kip that this thread is not the best place to announce you found our site but I'm glad you were so exciting that you shared the links Joe!

Now Kip, yes www.viawindowslive.com is a community site not run by Microsoft (I hope that was pretty clear already) but to correct you, it is not for profit, anyone can sign up and submit content right now. Once moderated, all content is available for free to everyone!

We are not new to this, www.viavirtualearth.com has been around for quite some time but as I'm sure everybody agrees there was definitely a need for a community site that brings together all the developer resources for Live Services. Early feedback has been awesome and we have already made changes based on this.

So the call goes out to anyone keen to write about developing with Live Services. We have a handful of MVPs keen to contribute but this is for everyone.

www.viawindowslive.com/Contribute.aspx

Now what collection will I add for Steve? I don’t want everyone to know about the Thai restaurant down the road do I? ;)

John O’Brien

Windows Live Developer MVP

re: Live Maps: Create a collection, help the team

Chris — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:47:08 GMT

Just to add on what Kip says, we have some developer content coming RE: Mix UK, in viawindowslive is mentioned. Stay tuned for that.

re: Live Maps: Create a collection, help the team

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:18:42 GMT

My first comment, Joe, is that there are better avenues for this than hijacking a comment thread.

To clarify, viawindowslive is not an MS site, but a for-profit site run by Aptovita, which sells developer services.

We think it's great that Dr. Neil and company are so involved in the community, and applaud the launching of viawindowslive. Can't say as we're too happy about this form of comment spam, however.

In the future, please contact us via the tips@ or feedback@ addresses and we will consider posting on your endeavors.

Now back to our regular scheduled programming. And Joe, would you at least create a collection for Steve?

re: Live Maps: Create a collection, help the team

joeale — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:04 GMT

I have some better info four every body out there.

I am pleased to announce the Beta of http://www.viawindowslive.com is now Live!

Taking the concepts of Dr Neil Roodyn and Tatham Oddie's ViaVirtualEarth to the next level, ViaWindowsLive promises to be the number one resource for Windows Live developers.

Many thanks to John O'Brien for help with configuring the site and the new design by Tricky Business.

The site provides essentials like getting started, community contributed articles, a gallery of Live sites, wiki, resource links as well as aggregated blogs and forums.

Each technology has its own homepage:

http://www.viawindowslive.com/VirtualEarth.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/SilverlightStreaming.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/Messenger.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/LiveSpaces.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/LiveSearch.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/LiveID.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/LiveContacts.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/Gadgets.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/Expo.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/CustomDomains.aspx

http://www.viawindowslive.com/Alerts.aspx

We would value any feedback you have at all, and feel free to register and start contributing content. Currently you can submit and manage your own sites in the gallery. John is in the process of setting up the wiki to be a little more organised and for articles you need to contact us to setup your own page.

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