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Frank's World Now Has Site Pinning

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If you’re running Windows 7 and have Internet Explorer 9, then you can take advantage of a cool feature called Site Pinning.

To try it, drag the Frank’s World icon in the address bar in the browser to the task bar.

Then right mouse click on the newly added icon.

You’ll see the following:

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Adding this feature to your site or page couldn’t be any easier. There’s even a site for making the process easier: buildmypinnedsite.com.

For example, I added the following meta tags to my Orchard page template.

<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Frank on Twitter;action-uri=http://twitter.com/tableteer;icon-uri=http://twitter.com/favicon.ico" />
<meta name="msapplication-task"content="name=Try Azure Free for 90 days;action-uri=
http://bit.ly/FreeAzure90DayTrial;icon-uri=http://www.windowsazure.com/favicon.ico" />
<meta name="msapplication-task"content="name=Download WebMatrix Free;action-uri=
http://bit.ly/WhatIsWebMatrix;icon-uri=http://www.microsoft.com/favicon.ico" />
<meta name="msapplication-task"content="name=Public Sector Team Blog;action-uri=
http://frnk.us/PubSecTeamBlog;icon-uri=http://blogs.msdn.com/themes/MSDN2/favicon.ico" />

Easy.

If you want more advanced features and notifications, there’s a complete API and plenty of documentation.

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