<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium','sans-serif'; COLOR: #002060"><font size="3">Windows Live just shipped a beta of our Messenger Connect platform. The platform uses OAuth WRAP (among </font><a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/archive/2010/06/27/developing-with-messenger-connect.aspx"><font size="3">other standards</font></a><font size="3">) and a new </font><a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-53-82-metablogapi/8585.image_5F00_60058FEB.png"><font size="3">consent dialogue</font></a><font size="3"> to enable third party websites to access a user’s Windows Live data. Some of the data that Messenger Connect beta will give third party websites access to is: contacts, activity streams, calendar, and photos. Messenger Connect will also support sign-up and sign-in with a Windows Live ID and chat through web messenger on the third party site.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium','sans-serif'; COLOR: #002060"><font size="3">For more information, read our </font><a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/06/28/messenger-connect-is-now-available.aspx"><font size="3">blog post</font></a><font size="3"> announcing the release, and check out the </font><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff749458.aspx"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">documentation</font></a><font size="3">. If you want to try it out, here are the </font><a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/messengerconnect/thread/6a63b5b9-3603-4662-8996-929b83eaa1f9"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">instructions</font></a><font size="3"> for how to sign up for the Messenger Connect beta and get access to the libraries. We’d love to hear your feedback through the forums, e-mail, etc.</font></span></p>
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