2009

Two months in, Bing continues upward trend

This month’s flurry of Bing stories are piling up, with today’s Comscore numbers (released to analysts today) showing Bing with a slight improvement over last month, from 8.5 to 8.9 percent US search market share.  What is perhaps …

More Bing on iPhones, and more clicks for Bing

bingLogo_reverse_lg At the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose CA yesterday, Bing senior program manager Alessandro Catorcini revealed that Microsoft is testing an Objective C wrapper that will allow iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications.…

Publish Your Photosynth To Facebook

So you got good at creating Photosynths. To share you can send the link to your friends or embed it into your blog but now there is one more: MySynth, a new Facebook app that publishes Photosynths right …

Windows Live Tips And Tricks

Looking to get the most out of Windows Live? Have a look at the wl-tipsandtricks space

WindowsLiveTips&Tricks 
Here you will find tips and tricks (videos) on:

  • Hotmail
  • Messenger
  • Photo Gallery
  • home.live.com

And if you need even more, there’s a collection

Two new Windows Live services coming soon: Documents and Devices

Our friend Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net has discovered two new services coming soon to Windows Live Wave 4: Windows Live Documents and Windows Live Devices. Here’s a screenshot showing the two new services added to the header of an internal …

Bing in the news: Jingles, NoFollow, Pharm ads, cashback (hey all pr is good pr, right?)

If Bing’s intent is to generate buzz and keep their name in the news, it seems to be working.  Of course some news is better than others, but at least people are talking, which wasn’t the case a few months …

Bing Maps Imagery & Map Data Release, July 2009

41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography has just been added to Bing Maps.

So go on to the Bing Maps World

Windows Live Events “retiring” in 2010

events Windows Live Events will be retiring in 2010, and instead you will be able to plan and manage social events all in one place through Windows Live Calendar, according to a post on Windows Live Wire.

In 2010, we’ll

Bing gains 1% US share in July, Google loses: StatCounter

graph In a press release issued today, web statistics firm StatCounter showed an increase in US search market share from 8.23% in June to 9.41% in July.  Google was down in the US from 78.48% in June to 77.54% in …

Soapbox video recovery: not so bad

Lately all of our favorite services seem to be crapping out on us.  We told you about the upcoming demise of MSN Soapbox, where we have a number of videos hosted.  Users have until August 31, 2009 to head to …