Windows Live Mesh

Beta testers of Windows Live Mesh, the synchronization, online storage and remote access service, will soon discover that it’s now merging with the new Windows Live Sync, a part of the updated Windows Live Essentials suite of applications. The technology that was developed for Live Mesh will form…

Brian Gorbett recently posted about his new Mesh-enabled application that he's now made available – a Windows Live Mesh video player. The video player is based on the Silverlight video player available on Codeplex, with one big difference –it’s been meshified! You can download the source code from…

Colaab is an online application that offers businesses real time collaboration tools for their employees. The company is now working on a prototype of their online app which works with Windows Live Mesh. Using the contacts API and accessing content from a user’s Live Folders, the colaab app can run…

Blockbuster announced today that they are teaming up with Microsoft on a set of new mobile services that will let customers watch movies on any device with an internet connection. Some of those services will be powered by Live Mesh, a platform that allows for synchronization of data between…

As the new Windows Live prepares to launch, let’s review what’s really being offered here in terms of cloud storage. With the new Windows Live offering, storage space isn’t isolated within each individual service. Instead, you’ll get 25 GB of free online storage that will span across both Windows…

Are you Mesh-obsessed? Well now you can show off your devotion to the new service by displaying the Mesh logo on your computer’s desktop. Thanks to the Live Dev team (and James, for posting the link), you can download a huge pack of Live Mesh themed wallpapers which offer several different…

After receiving some developer tokens at PDC, Bill Reiss has been playing around developing apps using the Live Services framework. One of his first applications is “Dr. Popper,” a Live Mesh-enabled Silverlight game which he’s tweaking to store high scores in the Mesh. He said it only took him a…

The Live Mesh team is rolling out a big update to the service which is going to deliver new features to the PC version of Mesh. In addition, the first Mac and Windows Mobile clients are being released in technical previews (see details below). Current Mesh users will need to update their clients…

At the Microsoft TechEd Australia 2008 conference keynote this morning, Dr. Neil and Amit Mital showed a quick preview of the Live Mesh application running on a Windows Palm Treo Pro. Long Zeng has the screenshots on his blog. In the demo, they showed how quickly a mobile photo could be synced to…

One of the most useful things you can do with Live Mesh, beyond just syncing files and folders, is syncing your bookmarks. This is as simple as right-clicking on your Favorites folder and adding it to the Mesh. (Doug has more detailed instructions on this here). When you do this on all your…