See, and use in your development, the Magic behind Windows Phone 7’s Person Hub, Activity Streams

Windows Live For Developers - Windows Phone People Hub Powered by Activity Streams

“As you may have heard, Microsoft made a major announcement about Windows Phone 7 this morning. On the Inside Windows Live blog, my colleague Chris Jones wrote about some of the many places where Windows Phone integrates with Windows Live: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/10/11/windows-live-and-windows-phone-7.aspx.

Here on our Windows Live for Developers, I’m excited to let you know that the Windows Live activities on the “People Hub” of Windows Phone 7 are powered by Activity Streams. Yes, the same Atom Activity Extensions format that I wrote about in August are powering the “what’s new” view on the Windows Phone 7 “People Hub.”

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If you’d like to learn more about Activity Streams, visit http://ActivityStrea.ms/, and if you’d like to join the Windows Phone 7 team in developing with the Windows Live Activity Streams API’s, check-out this blog post [GD: Yes, that link is borked] and http://dev.live.com/. Thanks very much--

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Seeing some of the magic behind Windows Phone 7, and showing me how I can use it in my apps, is cool in my book…