While it was rather old news by the time of the PDC, Microsoft did announce on Wednesday that they were releasing API’s for MSN Web Search, Windows Desktop Search, MSN Virtual Earth, and MSN Messenger as well as announcing MapPoint Web Service 4.0 in hopes of attracting developers. There’s also a new MSN Developer Center to serve the developer community. Note that there is a long standing MapPoint Developer Center.
Update: Dare Obasanjo says API’s for MSN Spaces are coming.
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September 23rd, 2005 at 8:02 AM
[...] It was just last week that Microsoft announced the release of API’s for a number of MSN centered technologies including the MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search. Well, today their first taker announced - Watson 2.0 Sidebar Now Available for MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search Users: Intellext(TM) ( http://www.intellext.com ), the “Intelligence in Context” software company, today announced the availability of its Watson 2.0 personal research assistant as an Add-in for Windows Desktop Search. The free 30-day trial of Watson 2.0 and the Add-in is available to download at http://addins.msn.com. [...]