LiveSide reader Gilly2468 noticed an interesting tidbit in a Bing tweet from Fareologist this week, a Binged.IT url shortener:

Gilly has more on his (very nice looking, btw!) My Microsoft Life blog.  URL shorteners are becoming quite popular …

The latest US search market share numbers from comScore, Hitwise, and Nielsen are out, and depending on who you believe, Bing is either up slightly, or down slightly, Yahoo! continues a downward trend, and Google just keeps on …

Yesterday Google dropped quite a bombshell when it announced that, because of a series of attacks on Google and other companies by hackers trying to get access to Chinese human rights activists GMail accounts, it would reconsider its “approach to …

A new post on the Bing search blog highlights some nice new features in Instant Answers for health related queries, including content from partners and new hard-to-discover search results.  Here’s a Bing search on h1n1:

The new Instant …

Well so far so good in our “hosting video on Azure” experiment.  We followed David Sayed’s tutorial and with only a few bumps along the way we now have a couple of videos in the cloud.  Our interview videos are …

CNN Money senior writer Jon Fortt talked to Steve Ballmer at CES about Bing, Windows Phone, and more, a quick but interesting take.  Ballmer promises a “whole new set of innovations” for Windows Phones, and comments that the mobile market …

Microsoft is busy dropping hints that it is finally ready to start talking about Windows Mobile 7, the long awaited and expectation-laden new Windows Phone operating system.  In his keynote, Steve Ballmer mentioned that there would be more about Windows …

As you may have noticed, we’ve been working hard on getting LiveSide.net ready for the year to come, including moving to a new web host, working on the themes, adding Disqus comments, and hopefully generally cleaning up our act.  Last …

While we can’t say we took the time to watch this year’s “Crunchies”, the TechCrunch awards given out for the past 3 years now, we’re happy to report that Bing took away the honors for Best New Startup or Product …

The CES keynote is just about to get underway, but luckily even though CES is late with the keynote Microsoft is early with the press release.  Unless Steve Ballmer pulls a fast one, about the only real news coming …