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Monetize your app with AdRotator for Windows 8 and Windows Phone

Have you published an app to the Windows Phone or Windows 8 store and are you looking to monetize it through advertising?  You may be very interested to learn about the AdRotator Nuget packages available for both Windows Phone and Windows 8.  AdRotator is essentially a component that allow for setting up multiple advertising publishers…

Details of Recent Outages for Youtube Apps on Windows Phone – More to come?

You may have read  that Microsoft recently had their Youtube API key revoked from Google, leaving their visually impressive app more or less dead in the water (Source).  This story followed a previous cease and desist from Google on the grounds that an earlier incarnation of the application did not properly display advertisements for certain…

Create A Music Playlist Generator with Yahoo Pipes and Yahoo WebPlayer

Introduction With the popularity of services like Spotify and Pandora, it is clear that playlist generation is something many of us enjoy.   The highly popular /r/music is regularly introduced to services which generate playlists from aggregated content.  These include sites like fuhshnizzle, tubalr, and my very own searchler.  This post is going describe how to create your own music video…

Michael Phelps Fans Windows Phone App

Codeplex always has great resources for practical use in .NET Development. Recently, a Social Viewer Template has been released for the Windows Phone 7 @ http://socialviewer.codeplex.com With this release, you can easily create applications which interact with popular social media applications such as Twitter , Flickr, and Facebook. Using the current stable release, I modified…