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Flickr search in Win7
19 November 08 03:52 PM | Brandon Live!

Long Zheng of iStartedSomething.com has taken it upon himself to enable users to leverage my Windows 7 feature, called Search Federation, to search their Flickr photos from inside the Explorer. It looks like a work-in-progress, and since his service works...

Filed under: Microsoft, Desktop Search, Windows Shell, Cool Stuff, Search, Windows 7, Technology, OpenSearch

Channel 9: Windows 7 and OpenSearch
04 November 08 12:02 PM | Brandon Live!

Our video about integrating OpenSearch-enabled data source with Windows 7 is now available on Channel 9! Check it out! Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Filed under: Desktop Search, Windows Shell, Windows 7, Microsoft PDC, OpenSearch

Got Windows 7? Try out OpenSearch!
01 November 08 06:04 PM | Brandon Live!

As we announced as PDC earlier this week, Windows 7 includes rich search federation using the OpenSearch and RSS/Atom standards. I’ll be talking much more about it in the future, but I wanted to give you all a chance to check out the publicly accessible...

Filed under: Microsoft, Desktop Search, Windows Shell, Search, Windows 7, Microsoft PDC, OpenSearch

Heading home from PDC
30 October 08 08:18 PM | Brandon Live!

It’s been a whirlwind of a trip here in LA.  When I arrived I thought I’d be blogging, posting photos, and keeping in touch with the outside world the whole time.  Well, that didn’t quite work out.  There was always so much going on and...

Filed under: Microsoft, Desktop Search, Life of Brandon, Windows Shell, WDS Development, Search, Windows 7, Microsoft PDC, OpenSearch