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Lauren Cooney at IBM came up with this idea on her blog : What I'd like to see? An app that utilizes the Open APIs that Facebook and Twitter have so that I can figure out which of my 500 FB friends use Twitter. Anyone interested in building this for Web...( Read More...
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I have been showing off Popfly as a great example of a Silverlight 1.0 application but my colleague David Chou has gone even deeper with this post about Popfly as a Platform : Popfly provides an environment where people without a significant technical...( Read More...
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What is Spock ? It's a search engine for people you know on the Internet. If you search for me, you'll find this page . If you search for "Spock" on Spock, you'll find this page . The cool thing is that Spock has a REST-based web service API . Because...(read more)
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Over the weekend, my challenge was to learn about OpenSocial and create a Silverlight application that uses it. I did that, with this simple application . To take advantage of the OpenSocial implementation in Orkut sandbox, you have to create a Google...(read more)
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After getting two similar questions from colleagues today about my first OpenSocial application , it struck me that the perceptions and reality of OpenSocial are a bit confused. My colleague Dare Obasanjo describes it succinctly in five sentences (with...(read more)
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I'm having a blast with Popfly, Microsoft's Silverlight-based mash-up designers. I've created a block that uses AOL Video Search and made a simple page that shows the results of what it does. I fell as if I'm just scratching the surface of something really...(read more)
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I just sat through an earthquake; a bit shaking but nothing damaged; no one was hurt. That gave me an idea: why don't I show earthquakes on a Virtual Earth Map using Popfly, Microsoft's new mashup service?
- Get Geo-RSS Data from the USGS
- Convert the RSS Items to Virtual Earth Pushpins
Here are the Magnitude 5+ earthquakes for the past 7 days:
If you are on popfly, come over to my page at http://www.popfly.ms/users/MS-Synergist. If you're not, it's free to join and start mashing up with a design tool created in Silverlight!
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I've decided to share the source code for my SilverlightMap project that converts Mindjet MindManager maps to Silverlight application in two venues: Windows Live SkyDrive and Popfly.
Windows Live SkyDrive
Microsoft Popfly
If you want to contribute and participate in the project you can try the new Popfly service. Download the Popfly Explorer for Visual Studio to open the project in Visual Studio 2005. Once you have installed the Popfly Explorer in Visual Studio, add the SilverlightMap project to your Popfly explorer.
