Channel 9 has posted a 49 minute video interviewing some of the guys behind Windows Live Expo, formerly Windows Live Fremont. It looks like it was shot during November 2005, so at the time “Expo” was probably just an idea for a final name and it is referred to as Fremont throughout.
The interview gives a good insight into what Expo is all about, how it is meant to be used and how it is different from other classifieds & auction services on the Web. They also talk about the development and infrastructure of the service.
From today, Conversagent, an authorized company behind various bots on the .NET Messenger Service network is offering free licenses for their BuddyScript SDK for at least six months.
Features that are available with this offer include:
- No RL (reverse list) limit allowing unlimited users
- Usage of up to 50,000 sessions per month
- Full support for MSN Activity features
- Sample Activity enabled bot project included in SDK
In my opinion, it is about time we see something like this happen and I am really happy with what’s being offered. BuddyScript looks to be a very good bot platform and it saves a lot of unnecessary development if you were coding something from scratch.
Todd Biggs has posted about it with some suggestions as to the kind of bots you could create, check it out!
