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With the amazing 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony just finished, Live Search has updated their first background image on the homepage for the Olympics, as reported yesterday . Now available at Live Search's Chinese market, here's what it looks like, featuring the Bird's Nest Olympic...
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The new look for Live Search , which Kip saw before is going to be rolled out over the next 24 hours within the US, with more markets to follow in the future. This is what it looks like (I found a hotspot too). If you don’t see it like that: click the image. - The new design features background rotating...
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After much ho-humming around whether Microsoft would or would-not acquire Powerset , the deal is now done and announced over on the Live Search blog . Though the price has not been announced, ReadWriteWeb were running with a rumour a few days back saying it was at the $100m range. For those who’ve missed...
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Just opened up my www.live.com home page to receive a nice surprise: … the less than awe-inspiring blue-gray of the home page has been replaced by a background picture. This would seem to open up a number of opportunities for special occasions, personalization, and or promotions, as well as just brightening...
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Live Search for Windows Mobile has just received an update, bringing out the features announced at CTIA last month . While it provides the standard mapping and local search that we’ve come to expect, it now adds the following: · Map a contact: For any people in your contacts list/address book...
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We thought we’d seen it all when it came to viral videos used by Microsoft to advertise new products. From the “ Hot Male ” series (pretty good) through to the MSN “ No one wants to look dumb” series (pretty bad). Alas no, we’ve now hit a new low with the new Live Search videos . Kip mentioned the Live...
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A few days ago Kip posted about a temporary update to Live Search , with the new thin UI. Well the new version is back for the moment, so I thought I'd take the chance to highlight it again in case you missed it the first time round. Those of you with sharp eyes will notice some changes to the search...
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As Kip already said in his article, Windows Live Platform Announcements: Cool new toys just in time for Mix , some new WL Quick Apps were added. In this article I want to highlight an updated WL Quick App: Tafiti Search visualization . First let me explain Tafiti: Tafiti, which means "do research"...
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The Microsoft-Yahoo! deal, when and if it is finalized, will bring on many changes to branding across offerings from both companies. Some have speculated on the end of Windows Live, replacing it with the Yahoo! brand, but I don't think so. Microsoft's strategy to use Windows Live as a value add...
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Conspicuously missing from all the wave 2 upgrades and marketing for the new look Windows Live has been Live.com , the one time personalized home page of the future. Once the golden child of Windows Live , touted as the future of the home page, then mired in performance problems, low usage numbers, and...