Slides presented at Follow My Feed Workshops. FollowMyFeed.net is a web app that makes it easy to create Windows Phone 7 applications with no coding required!

1. Getting Started in
the Mobile
Marketplace
Ed Donahue
Academic Developer Evangelist
ed.donahue@microsoft.com
creepyed.com | @creepyed

2. Ed Donahue
Salsa dancer
Light jogger
Casual cyclist
Swimmer
Triathlete (for those
counting)
Computer science major
Lover of monospaced
fonts
Supporter of women
in tech
Microsoft Academic
Developer Evangelist
2
ed.donahue@microsoft.com | www.creepyed.com | @creepyed

3. Agenda
 DreamSpark
 App Hub
 FollowMyFeed
 Upload
 PRIZES!
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4. Goals
 Get comfortable in the Windows Phone
Marketplace
 Create your own FollowMyFeed app and
publish it to the Marketplace
 Give stuff away
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5. Let’s get started!
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6. Pro Tips
 Use a hotmail.com or live.com email address for your
LiveID
 If you can’t see a school list, try using Internet Explorer
 When you sign up for App Hub, use the SAME LiveID you
used for your DreamSpark account
DreamSpark App Hub FollowMyFeed
(dreamspark.com) (create.msdn.com) (followmyfeed.net)
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7. FollowMyFeed Walk Through
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8. FollowMyFeed Tips
 Get the lab: bit.ly/followmyfeedlab
 Find RSS feeds by searching the site for “RSS”
 Want a Twitter RSS?
 http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USERID.atom
 Use www.idfromuser.com to find Twitter user ID
 Want to make multiple RSS feeds into one?
 http://rssmix.com ( I use this one)
 Images:
 Check out creepyed.com  Windows Phone
 Use your own or
 Find Creative Commons images (Flickr, anyone?)
 Use the Windows Phone Icon Maker:
http://wpiconmaker.codeplex.com
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9. Contests!
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10. Idea of the Week
 Submit your great app idea for a
chance to win $50!
 Create a Sketchflow prototype and
post it online
(wp7sketchflow.codeplex.com/)
 Tweet the URL with #WPAppItUp
 Judged on Innovation, Experience
and Potential
 Rules: bit.ly/idearules
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11. Your App Here
 Be a featured app in December,
January or February!
 Win a digital ad campaign that will
deliver one million ad impressions!
 Receive featured placement on the
Windows Phone Marketplace
 More info: wpyourapphere.com
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12. What’s next?
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13. Resources
 Get these slides: slideshare.net/creepyed
 Download today’s lab: bit.ly/followmyfeedlab
 Get the Windows Phone 7 SDK and development tools:
bit.ly/edwp7sdk
 Just getting started with Windows Phone 7? Check out
these resources: bit.ly/edwp7begresource
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