You’ve probably heard about the launch of Windows Live Events, but unless you’ve been using a web debugging proxy like Fiddler, you probably didn’t know that there’s a way to programmatically instantiate a Windows Live Event.  Try clicking this link: http://spaces.live.com/api.aspx?wx_action=createEvent&wx_targetSite=eventSpace&wxp_name=Movie+Night:+Live+Free+or+Die+Hard&wxp_alias=liv

As you might have seen on TechCrunch or LiveSide, Windows Live Spaces released a new version of our service early this morning.  However, we didn’t just ship features this time around… We shipped a lot of new updates to our APIs, RSS Feeds, and Gadget support.  Additionally, we will be spending some time at Mix07 this year talking about why developers should start partying on our platform.  We wi

(cross-posted from: http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/ as this may be interesting for Dev folks - Rob) Have you ever wondered… wow, there’s all of that stuff (blogs, photos, profiles, lists, etc.) in Spaces, but I just can’t find what I’m looking for using the Spaces Search?  Well, I’m writing to share the Secrets of Searching Spaces.  It may come as no surprise to you that the Search experien

As noted on The Spacecraft, we have released another update to Windows Live Spaces.   As I alluded to in my last post, Get/Set Preferences support has been added to the Gadget platform.   I can't wait to see the new gadgets that this update enables.   -- Greg Phipps

Donavon West posted an article on LiveSide last week discussing his view of the state of gadget development on Windows Live Spaces.Donavon says that the lack of support for Get/Set Preferences as the biggest challenge facing developers. We agree . I am happy to say that we are actively working on support for Get/Set Preferences. I can't give dates yet, but it is coming soon. -- Greg Phipps