Windows Live Contacts Gadget Beta release

The new Windows Live Contacts Gadget is an add-on web component that enables you
to access your Windows Live Contacts and use that data when you are browsing and
shopping online. On his MSDN blog, developer Danny Thorpe says, "If you're
shopping for flowers for Grandma online, it's much easier to tell the contacts
gadget to give Grandma's postal address to the florist site than to type in her
address each time you visit the site. 240 million Hotmail and Messenger users
have already amassed some 14 billion contact records. Wouldn't it be nice if you
could use your contacts for things beyond just Hotmail and Messenger?"

You can get the Windows Live Contacts Gadget beta by going here.

Demos of two live sample applications (a party planner and a contacts map) that
combine Windows Virtual Earth and Windows Live Contacts Gadget are available at
http://dev.live.com/contactsgadget/