The New MicrosoftGadgets.com
As Scoble pointed out, our team has gotten the new and improved version of MicrosoftGadgets.com up and running. Adam and I spent a few really long nights cramming as much cool stuff as we and our team could think of into this release. If you're into developing gadgets for live.com, this is the place for you. If you just want to see some cool gadgets that have been developed by the community, come check out our Gadget Gallery. Here's a summary of the new features...
Home Page - Redesign
- Getting Started
- Random Featured Gadget
- Top 5 Downloads
- Last 5 Gadgets
Gallery - Redesigned Interface and Gadget Preview
- Download Count
- View by Creator (RSS also)
- View By Tag (RSS also)
- View By Creator & Tag (RSS also)
- Tag Search
- User Tag Favorites (including Unread Count)
- New Download Count Sort By option
Gadget Detail View - Redesign
- Tags
- Report Bad Gadget
- Broken Gadget Banner
Repair Shop - Reported bad by community
- Confirmed by Microsoft
- Forum Thread for discussing broken gadgets
- Fix/Approve/Reinstate gadget
Add Gadget - New Wizard Interface
- Manifest Validation
- AJAX Style Interface
- Tagging
User Profile Miscellaneous - Pretty Urls
- RSS Everywhere
- Passport Bug fixes
- Performance Enhancements
Hope you enjoy my first major release at Microsoft. If you've got some feedback on the site we'd love to hear it. Send feedback here on my blog or on the site.
Oh and btw, we had a lot of fun at Jeff's place playing XBox 360 and fixing a couple bugs while we were at it. ;)