2009

Windows Live Rolls Out 19 New Web Activity Partnerships

We could already add quite a lot to our Windows Live Profile, but starting today there are 19 more to add!

The newest feed partners are:

4Travel (Japan), Azbuz (Turkey), Baby Kingdom (Hong Kong), Biip.no (Norway), Break.com (US), BuscaPe

Bing videos: where every view is a search

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 …

Bing Maps Imagery Release, November 2009

This month’s, 178,720 square kilometers worth, early image release is focused on Europe, mostly Eastern Europe:

  • Bulgaria (1,225 sq. km)
  • Czech Republic (10,808 sq. km)
  • Estonia (1,418 sq. km)
  • Hungary (23,840 sq. km)
  • Latvia (12,763 sq. km)
  • Lithuania (9,681 sq.

MSN Video is now…Bing Videos!

Starting today, MSN Video will be gradually be rebranded and integrated into Bing Videos, providing a “unified experience” across Microsoft’s online video destinations. Here’s what the Bing team blog has to say:

Starting today and rolling out over the

New features and updates to Bing Reference!

Thanks to a reminder from Picturepan2@LiveSino.net, we noticed an update to Bing Reference that went unnoticed. For those who don’t know what Bing Reference is, it is a search vertical of Bing that is based on the acquired Powerset …

Bing fall update announced: Wolfram|Alpha, weather, more

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

TechEd Europe: Microsoft Translator Widget And APIs In Beta

Today at TechEd Europe the Microsoft Translator Team announced that the Microsoft translator widget is now available to everyone, no more invite requirement!

A recap of today’s session:

  • Microsoft Translator APIs and the webpage widget are now in beta
  • Generate

Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released

The Bing Maps Silverlight Control has left CTP stage, as said it would back in August. Version 1.0 has just been released.

Everything from the CTP was brought forward including support for Deep Zoom, scalable images, video placement etc.! The …

Quick Update: Favorites syncing on Windows Live Toolbar working once again

We reported a few days ago that Favorites sync was temporarily turned off in Windows Live Toolbar for all users due to a technical glitch on the server side. The Windows Live Toolbar team just announced today that this has …

Hey, a new Bing maps interface!

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:

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The navigation bars look to be simplified, and “Get Directions” …