A while ago, we were berated by some kid from Australia  about our site design, and though it stung we knew it to be true.  This weekend, our resident Community Server guru Nick Brown got to work – upgrading Community Server …

Sanaz and the Live.com team posted last night on “a small update” to Live.com, featuring continued performance improvements (and yes it’s sooo much better than the old days).  Live.com promises even more perf improvements coming soon, according to the blog …

Today sees a small but valuable Windows Live Spaces update that tweaks and fixes the existing version to improve both performance and usability. Key changes include:

• Improved customisations menu, providing access to a built-in color changer (previously TweakUI powertoy), and the

Note (1st December 2006): Since this was originally posted, @live.com email addresses are no longer available. Currently only @live.nl addresses are now available. Please read the following posts for more information.

13/11/2006 @live.com hack fixed 
15/11/2006 Live Mail to delete new …

From time to time I receive emails with questions about my gadgets and gadget development. For example, "How do I create a fly-out in a Sidebar gadget?" or, my favorite, "How do I remove your iTunes gadget from …

Word is out from Betsy about some new features over at Windows Live QnA, including a new browse page for tags, a new question page interface, the initiation of a content rating system, an email a question to a friend …

Hot off the OneCare blog is news that Windows Live OneCare 1.5 will be available to the public on January 30th 2007, the same day as Windows Vista launches to the masses. New features currently include:

Hutchison Essar and Microsoft Corp. have announced a broad scale mobile services alliance in India. The two companies have agreed in principle to work together to provide mobile search and other key Windows Live services to Hutch's subscriber base of …

The Virtual Earth map control is the power behind Windows Live Local. Using the Virtual Earth 3.1 map control (VE) APIs, you too can create some amazing location based applications of your own. I've worked with VE on a …

We've created a set of lists of some of the blogs we follow here at LiveSide, something we had on the old site and just haven't had the time to update.

This time, though, you can visit the blog, subscribe …