This is a screen cast recording of Office Live as a platform for developers to build on and customize. 

The topics covered include:

What is Office Live?
Opportunity for partners to build on the platform

Customizing the Private Site
Office Live Business Applications and Workspaces
Developing Custom Applications (Business rules, Data, etc.)
Data Connectivity
Workflow
Customizing with SharePoint Designer

Customizing the Public Site …[more ]

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MindManager Pro 7 is a visual outliner from Mindjet that "enables companies and individuals to work smarter, think creatively and save time by revolutionizing the way they visually capture and manage information." In this screencast, Mindjet's Michael Scherotter demonstrates a solution that deeply integrates a MindManager map with Word 2007. When this solution exports a map to a Word file -- in Open XML format -- there are two levels of integration with Word. First, the contents of the map are…[more ]