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One sure fire way to get a new feature noticed is to attach it to TechCrunch, and indeed TC noticed a new Bing feature yesterday that appears on Bing search results for “TechCrunch”: The “Latest posts” feature only appears for certain websites (TechCrunch, New York Times, etc), and appears to be different than the “Top
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I got called a namedropper on Twitter today for my earlier Day 1 post, but really we think of our readers as being the reason we’re here, and it’s because of you that we’re able to get to do this cool stuff. We’ll have a bit more later on the PDC in general, but at the risk of being called a namedropper again, today I had a chance
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Here we go! Live blog day 2!
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Thanks to Sunshine for recapping the PDC day one keynotes, our second day of keynotes, and liveblogging, is set to begin in a few hours. At this PDC, to be sure, there’s not a lot of Windows Live news, or news about Live Mesh or any of the periphery of software and services that make up what interests us most, but that’s not to say we’re not working
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We're here in sunny Los Angeles ( 76 degrees and sunny :) ) again, liveblogging the PDC keynotes today and tomorrow. You can watch the keynote live at www.microsoftpdc.com , and follow along with our motley crew of bloggers and journalists (Long Zheng, Mary Jo Foley, Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren, Rafael Rivera, and yours truly). Hope you have
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A story in the Financial Times today is reporting that Zune services will soon be expanding into a number of new markets: The Zune-branded service – which includes the most popular films from MGM, Paramount and Universal – will be available in 18 of its largest western markets, including the US, UK, France, Germany and Australia. The article doesn’t
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We’re honored again to be able to bring you a group effort liveblog of the keynotes at PDC, coming up next Tuesday and Wednesday. The same gang is back again this year: Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com , Mary Jo Foley from All About Microsoft , Ed Bott from Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report , Paul Thurrott from Windows Supersite , Rafael Rivera
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Hot on the heels of the updates to Bing Maps, Videos, and Reference, Bing made some more announcements today, as part of a “major release”, to be rolled out over the coming weeks. Most noticeable is the announcement of a partnership with Wolfram|Alpha to use their APIs and include nutritional information searches and math searches as part
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The new Bing Videos site looks to be a big improvement over its predecessor MSN Video – with Silverlight Streaming, a new cleaner look, and integration with YouTube, Hulu, National Geographic, and many more. But like many others, we’ve been wondering why Bing? Why not revamp the MSN site (video.msn.com, which now redirects to Bing.com/videos
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Just saw a tweet by Doc Searls (who likes the Birds Eye View) saying that the Bing Map Server was “temporarily unavailable”, so we checked and found a new interface: The navigation bars look to be simplified, and “Get Directions” is featured prominently on the www.bing.com/maps page. At the bottom, a simplified set of icons offers