MSN Soapbox has been in an invite only state for a few months now, but today sees it enter its public beta phase, so no more waiting to get in and see what the fuss is about.

For those who …

Well, I’m not, so there . It appears that MSN are giving away a Zune in a sweepstakes over at http://homepage.msn.com/zune. So what do you have to do to be eligible for Microsoft’s MP3 player? Set your Internet Explorer …

As a followup to yesterday’s post “MSN to host Live Earth concert series” it appears as though the series of concerts is going by the name SOS – Save Our Selves. While the url http://sos.msn.com/ looks to be …

Just picked up on a killer app, coming from Yahoo’s web mail team.  Apparently, Yahoo is now integrating IM into their web mail client.  I haven’t been able to give it a go yet since it’s not available to all …

At the end of last week there was some chatter from the FT about Al Gore announcing on Saturday a series of concerts to promote climate change. While even the likes of the FT sometimes get their dates wrong, an …

While there is nothing ground-breaking in last night’s 3GSM announcement regarding Windows Live Mobile, its worth highlighting the work the Mobile team has done in producing some great final products. Torres gets it spot on when he says “old …

Here’s a few things relating to Search that caught our eye this week:

• SearchEngineLand has a detailed interview with Live Search’s Justin Osmer. While there’s only so many ways you can put a positive spin on poor share performance, Justin

In a relatively un-noticed post on the Windows Live Gallery blog last week, a new feature called Windows Live Collections was mentioned. Collections are pre-made Live.com pages with feeds and gadgets that you can add to your own Live.com homepage. Although the …

Karen posted on the Space Craft yesterday that there are some new themes available for your Spaces blogs – including some LeBron James ones that are part of an upcoming LeBron challenge on MSN (for those international readers who haven’t …

Really.  At some point this has just got to stop.  Someone has got to get enough Kahunas at Microsoft to figure out a branding strategy for Windows Live, stick with it, and get on with the business of building a brand …