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Popfly beta

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I have previously blogged about Popfly and even showed a video on how my daughter Sahana, an avid Facebook user, could personalize her Web experience with Popfly and Silverlight without writing any code.

Popfly is the first of a new generation of web tools that enables users of all skill levels to create or edit their own mash-ups for use within applications or to simply spice up their web sites. For example, the mash-up below is a custom Silverlight News Reader that displays headlines from MSDN.

This morning Steve Ballmer announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that Popfly beta is now available for you to try out and build fun, cool experiences. In a little over five months since the private Popfly alpha, we’ve seen the number of users grow from about 100 to over 50,000. Given the number of people who are on-line and are wanting to create and customize/personalize on-line experiences, I expect this number to grow significantly. You can read more about what’s new in the beta release on the Popfly Team Blog.

Another exciting thing about Popfly is that we have been able to partner with companies, both large and small, to build interesting blocks for Popfly. Some of these partners include social Web sites like Facebook and Twitter as well as sites like Dapper, an online service that enables you to extract data from any Web site, and finally our partnership with internal teams at Microsoft like Windows Live which provides mapping, photos, and search blocks.

For those of you that already have a blog, Windows Live Spaces page, or a Facebook profile, check out Dan Fernandez’s blog for an assortment of Silverlight gadgets and widgets you can add to your site today.

Namaste!

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  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2007
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/10/18/popfly-beta/

  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2007
    Popfly עובר לשלב ה- Beta! בחמשת החודשים האחרונים בהם Popfly היה בשלב ה- Alpha והוצע בתחילה רק ע"י

  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2007
    On atendait l'annonce officielle, voilà maintenant chose faite : Popfly est à présent en Bêta publique,

  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2007
    On attendait l'annonce officielle, voilà maintenant chose faite : Popfly est à présent en Bêta publique

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2007
    As announced by the Popfly Team and widely blogged about elsewhere , Microsoft's online mashup tool has

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2007
    Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. If you get that reference you need a life. Popfly is now beta , go get it and knock

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2007
    Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. If you get that reference you need a life. Popfly is now beta , go get it and knock

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2007
    I am afraid to install Silverlight again.  I installed it last month.  Twice I tried to view Silverlight pages, and twice my machine locked up.  I uninstalled and no lockups.

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2007
    Hi Thomas - I'd like to talk to you about the problem that you are seeing & see if we can figure out what's going on. Can you contact me directly at tom.taylor [at] microsoft [dot] com? thanks!

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  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    Would like to see a demo proper on popfly