Windows Live Dev is now live. Wondering what it is? Check out the answer at What is Dev?

Windows Live Dev is your one-stop shop for the Windows Live Platform, including information on getting started with Windows Live services, latest documentation and APIs, samples, access to community areas and relevant blogs, and announcements of future releases and innovations.

Windows Live Dev is a new site and will be growing over time, adding more content and features. Please, let us know what you think of the site and what you’d like to see in the future. Post to our “Chatter” forum and start a conversation about what you’d like to see. We’ll see you there.

About the Windows Live Platform

The Windows Live Platform puts a deeper level of control into developers' hands by offering access to the core services and data through open, easily accessible APIs. Now you can build applications and mashups that combine your innovation with the power of Windows Live services and social relationships.

This is awesome. This is the third developer website I've been a part of getting started at Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml and http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn are the others) and yet I can never get over how great it feels to see something go from an idea on a whiteboard to reality. I wanted the URL of the site to be http://developer.live.com but Brian (our VP) suggested http://dev.live.com which definitely has a better ring to it. Check it out and let us know what you think. 

I'll be doing the group blog thing at http://dev.live.com/spaces. Expect interesting new API announcements in the coming months and perhaps even a peep or two about the rumored support for gadgets coming to Windows Live Spaces.