2010

Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer – A Screenshot Fest

Windows Live Wave 4 is seemingly approaching at a rapid speed, based on the web services already making an appearance, which means soon (who knows when) the Essentials beta will begin and the public will be able to get …

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 3

Yay, it’s here, the new World Cup map app! Chris Pendleton just posted about it on the Bing Maps Blog:

WorldCup The New World Cup map app highlights all the different countries participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 2

Following up on Part 1, we bring you Part 2 with the latest release(s) of Bing stuff for the FIFA World Cup.

There is still no sign of the earlier mentioned Map App on Bing Maps, yet TechCrunch …

New Map App, My Friends, shows you where your Facebook friends are

MyFriends Want to see where your Facebook friends are in the World? Now you can with the new My Friends map App! This map app uses Facebook APIs to pull in your friends from Facebook (only those who have listed a …

The New Windows Live Sync Beta

Windows Live Sync Logo Over on Inside Windows Live, David Treadwell just posted about the new Live Sync beta. He wrote about how Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh Beta. Yuhuh, the two are …

Images on Google home page: great PR for Bing?

Yesterday, in order to promote the ability, rolled out last week, for you to be able to set your own background image on the www.google.com home page, Google turned on the feature internationally for a 24 hour period, according to …

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 1

With the FIFA World Cup South Africa right around the corner, Bing can not escape on doing something for all the Soccer fans.

They are kicking off by integrating World Cup information, live scores of matches, group standings etc. into …

More on the Bing Spring update

Spent a good part of the day today at SMX Advanced, first at the keynote/”fireside chat” with Yusuf Mehdi and Danny Sullivan, and then in a session on Bing’s upcoming new Webmaster Tools.  Just as we were writing …

Bing announces new Social vertical

At SMX Advanced in Seattle this morning, Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi demoed a new “social” vertical coming to Bing, set to go live “within the hour”.  The new page features real time results from Twitter and Facebook, filtered …

More Windows Phone Developer News

During the keynote and a Windows Phone 7 session at TechEd North America 2010, Microsoft showed off a newer build of Windows Phone 7. Long Zheng has put up some images of this new build. He notes that the …