How do I schedule a Skype Broadcast Meeting programmatically? - live-streaming

I need to schedule meetings through Skype Broadcast as part of an application that I am building. I would like to be able to automatically schedule the meeting for the user, based on information that my application has.
I have looked into this through the existing APIs in Skype for Business Online, but haven't found anything for Skype Broadcast meetings. I am hoping that someone has experience with this or can at least point me in the right direction.

I spoke with the Skype for Business Broadcast team directly and they informed me that this functionality is not yet available from their application. They directed me to their UserVoice site where a request is already pending to add this feature. Hopefully this will be addressed soon.
If this answer helps anyone, consider visiting their UserVoice site and voting on this issue. It would certainly help me!

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Is there any app or addon to receive notifications from external website updates?

I have been searching for this for many days, or weeks, and I am totally frustrated. Hopefully someone can help.
It is something very simple. I have to translate articles from an author but the software I use to get the notifications doesn't work. Do you know of any website, app, service... that may send me an SMS or a GMAIL message everytime a writer publishes a new article?
I can't edit or manipulate in any way the website, that is why I wrote "external". I searched and I couldn't find the RSS option in the website. In theory IFTTT depends upon RSS, so same issue.
Thank you so much folks!

RunKeeper - Health Graph API documentation

I am unable to find health graph documentation. This link - https://runkeeper.com/developer/healthgraph, redirects to the home page of RunKeeper. Can someone please provide me the documentation or a legit link for the same?
Thank you
Runkeeper only allows their current partners to access the Health Graph API. I asked Runkeeper about accessing the API and this is the reply I got:
Runkeeper: Thank you for your email -- we're happy to clarify. Our team made the decision to stop accepting new registrations for our Health Graph API, as we want to direct our limited resources towards best serving our current partners. Going forward, we will only be supporting clients we have specifically built a partnership with on our end.
We’re very sorry for any inconvenience this causes

Integrating skype for business into my web app

I have a web app where if a user signs up, a notification is sent to the slack channel. I want to achieve the same thing in skype for business but I cant find any good resources. Will it be possible to do this?
That isn´t so easy to answer as Skype for Business (=SfB) is a very complex product and you didn´t outlined a real use case (e.g. will a group of persons addressed or only one person, what should happen if nobody is in, ...).
As a starting point you could build something on your own via the Skype for Business Web SDK which fits your needs. If you search for that via Google you can find various article which gives you some examples which can be adjusted (for example here).
You might also wish to try to find a old version from the "Lync Presence & Chat Widget" as it became a commercial product.
If you wish to get a commercial "plugin" you can try to use:
OrbitOne - Lync Presence & Chat Widgets see here (Demo here)
Vytru Live Web Chat Widget for Lync/Skype for Business
Enabling WebChat

Newsstand free subscriptions

I'm developing app - it is custom offline feed reader. I's completely free, so I do not need any subscriptions. I want to use some newsstand features and I already draw amazing icon for newsstand:) What should I do? Is any workarounds about this issue? May be some "fake" free subscription?
Another issue - when I tried to publish app with only one free subscription, I failed. Is that normal?
Your completely correct you can have free subscriptions, iTunes connectly clearly states you can have free subscriptions.
If you want to use Urban airship this guide should help you out, and give you the perfect guide as to what you are actually looking for.
Search First Glimpse magazine. It is a free magazine that populates in News Stand. Also, that publishing company has more free content

How to get in touch with the users of your WP7 apps?

This is a problem that every developer will face when building their apps: how to contact the reviewer of your app to notify them of an update, new release, help topics, etc?
Some things I am thinking:
Include an RSS feed in your app which you can update to notify the users of the app.
Include a twitter feed regarding your app. How to go about this?
Include a way for the users to subscribe to a mailing list. This way, I can send a mass-email to the users who opted-in? Any suggestions here?
Any other ways that you think this can/should be done? Any existing solutions you can point me to will be great. Thanks in advance.
One way, for contacting a specific user who created a review of an application is to go to Zune Social (at http://social.zune.net/home) and create a new message. You can then enter the Zune Tag of the user who created a review.
Personally, I'd try to do all three - have a web page/site, with an RSS feed, and a subscription link (so they can subscribe to the RSS feed via email) and then post any updates to your twitter account as well.
You can't really force a user to do any of these, but having the options available, and linked from inside your app on the about page is probably good practise.
You could also include some kind of "Update Available" feature inside the application. Try to make this as unobtrusive as possible obviously. Obviously if they've still got the app installed they'll get an update notification from the marketplace anyway.
Sam
Besides the suggestions made by samjudson, I'll also recommend having a support-page with a direct option to send a email to you. Here's a example of a support-page from one of my applications. I've received lot of emails with suggestions for improvements, or complains about bugs. And since it's by email, it gives you the option to respond directly to people.
Another thing about reviews. Don't take them to serious. Most people only rate negatively (since humans like to complain), and by such a lot of reviews are often misinformed, outdated, or the users just been plain ignorant.