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=livefreeordiehard&wxp_contactName=John+Smith&wxp_contactPhone=206-555-1212&wxp_location=Space+Needle&wxp_address=4th+Ave.+and+Broad+St.+in+Seattle&wxp_latlong=47.62061,-122.34942&wxp_mapType=h&wxp_mapZoom=18&wxp_description=%3cimg%20src='http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/mo/OneSheets/new3/LiveFreeorDieHard.jpg'%3e&wxp_template=IIEventOscarParty.xml API DetailsThe link should have taken you to an event create page with all of the specified parameters pre-populated.  Yep, it’s a long link, but it’s intended to show all of the parameters (most of which are optional.)  Here’s the link in a more read-able format:

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 will be updating this site in the coming days to bring you API, Feed and Gadget documentation that will help you start building some cool mashups, or gadgets on Spaces.  Until then, check out some of the feeds we added and the new features for gadget support.  Of course, if you have questions or comments, visit our forums, drop us a line at spgadgfb@microsoft.com

(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 experience on Windows Live Spaces is powered by Live Search.  We’re actually just using some publicly available features of Live Search. Search Spaces Blogs For starters, let’s say that we want to search for Spaces blog entries that talk about a specific topic, for example “Ms Dewey.”  Of course you could go to Spaces to do your search, but this is about exposing the “Secrets of Searching Spaces” so let me show you how to do this using Live Search: 1. Go to Live Search (http://search.live.com) 2. Enter “Ms Dewey site:spaces.live.com meta:search.pt(blogs)” Now I’ll explain: · “Ms Dewey” are your standard keyword search terms · The “site:” parameter scopes your search to URL’s that start with that site · The “meta:” parameter tells Live Search to look for the meta word “search.pt” which contains “blogs.”  Other “search.pt” metawords that you can use are “spaces” and “people” for the front page of a user’s space and the profile page respectively.  Nikhil, who was the dev

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