Microsoft’s Gadget Gallery features non-Microsoft gadgets

Microsoft’s Gadget Gallery today made their “featured gadgets” section open to third party gadgets. Up to now, this space had been populated by Microsoft authored gadgets. Bruce Kasrel, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft said ... Read more »

Create Your Own Search Engine

A few years ago, if you wanted your own search engine, you would have had to work very hard in a garage creating algorithms and all sorts of crazy stuff. Now, thanks to Live ... Read more »

Gadget Development Tip: Lint your JavaScript

If you've written web or Sidebar gadgets, then you know that you write a lot of JavaScript. JavaScript programming can be tricky as it in an interpretive language (i.e. not pre-compiled like other languages ... Read more »

Live Spaces: The challenges facing gadget developers

My name is Donavon West, a Live.com and Sidebar gadget developer at LiveGadgets.net and a Microsoft MVP for Windows Live Development. This is my first blog article here at LiveSide. Many of you have written gadgets for ... Read more »

A Post on Gadgets and Plugins

Thomas J. points to a number of new Gadgets for Spaces, including Hangman and Pong, a Mortgage rates watch, a Technorati Search Gadget, and a Gas Prices Gadget, among others. And recently Dare pointed ... Read more »

Windows Live Contacts Gadget beta released

Danny Thorpe of the Windows Live Platform team announced on his blog Momentary Gouts of Reason what he calls "a new kind of web component" the Windows Live Contacts Gadget. What's it for? The ... Read more »

Custom Domains goes v1

Yet another launch for June, this time its Custom Domains, the personalised email service hosted on the Windows Live platform. Nearly all the beta users I've spoken to have been quick to praise Custom ... Read more »

Windows Live SDK for Gadgets

Another Windows Live SDK has been released, this time for Windows Live Gadgets, and you can "start using this SDK right now to build Gadgets that run on Live.com" according to James Lau on ... Read more »

Live.com minor update + Gadget SDK

The live.com team just released another small update, as well as the Windows Live Gadgets SDK. Changes include: – Performance improvements – Drag and drop gadgets to a specific page – Ability to create ... Read more »

Windows Live Gadgets SDK coming soon, According to new blog

Just appearing is a new Windows Live Gadget blog, by James Lau. In typical "one name for many different things" Microsoft naming style, there are three different kinds of gadgets: Windows Live gadgets, that ... Read more »