Windows Photo Spaces Upgraded
- Posted by Frank on November 10th, 2010 filed in Basic Information
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In a major advancement to their Windows Live Spaces Photo API, they allow third-party websites to build photo applications aside from the Windows Live Spaces. Because of the big size of the Live Spaces user base, they give developers programmatic access to 4 billion pictures. Beneath the covers of the API, it also supports both a WebDAV and AtomPub forms. It also allows you to upload, download and delete pictures as well as create, edit, and delete photo albums. One of the major changes to the API and photo hosting model is that third-party sites don’t need to host or proxy the images but instead can manage the picture datas and leave the storage and serving to Microsoft. It is also noted that it uses Windows Live Delegated Authentication where users delegate permissions to read or write pictures on a site-by-site basis.