Web Application Toolkits: Make your website "Social" (Channel 9)

Web Application Toolkits: Make your website "Social"

Posted: Sep 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM

By: James Senior

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Adding social capabilities to your Web site allows you to attract new users, keep them on your Web site for longer and get them to come back more often. In this screencast we explore this Web Application Toolkit that shows how, using a few lines of code with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, it is possible to add social capabilities to a Web site with instant messaging from a website to various client endpoints like Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox 360 and Mac. Behind the scenes is a powerful set of UI Controls and a JavaScript library that connect your website to the Messenger Service which is used by 330 million users around the world.

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scyonx

Sep 24, 2009 at 9:01 PM

no facebook / twitter integration toolkit ??
IndiaTransit

Sep 25, 2009 at 11:17 AM

What impact is it going to have on Google search, if we inject so much of HTML?
jsenior

Oct 08, 2009 at 5:11 PM

Thanks for the feedback - we have Facebook and Twitter on the radar.

Make sure you send your Web App Toolkit ideas to webapp@microsoft.com

Thanks

James
jsenior

Oct 08, 2009 at 5:12 PM

Search engines like Bing and Google are going to have to think of new ways to index content that is pulled from the server using Ajax. It's becoming a more common problem that needs to be addressed.

James

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