To celebrate attaining 6,000 RSS readers (it changes everyday, but we’ve been steadily climbing over the past months), today we’re introducing a new page on LiveSide, the LiveSide Blog Sampler.  We read a lot of blogs in order to …

If  you took the time to check out our feed sampler you may have already noticed the news that Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and the successor to Bill Gates when he steps down from daily duties this …

Data portability is an idea long championed, and becoming more important all the time.  As we continue to load our online lives on to various social networking sites, the concept of making it easy to get that information back off …

Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party ad provider for the Wall Street Journal network of sites, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com and others.  From the press release:

“This deal is a significant win for Microsoft

Our good friend PicturePan2 has been working hard on a new project, a new Windows Live Community in China.  I asked him to write up a post on it, in English:

Hello everyone, I am Picturepan2 from LiveSino, also the

Our friend Long Zheng, at istartedsomething, received an interesting and long comment on his Windows 7 post yesterday.  While of course we can’t confirm that MSBob actually is an insider, what he says from what we can tell is …

Word is filtering out this morning that Microsoft, along with recent additions Google, Facebook, and Plaxo, will be joining the DataPortability.Org working group, represented by Windows Live Platform Corporate Vice President David Treadwell.  DataPortability.Org seeks to allow data sharing …

Nielsen/Netratings just released its search share numbers for December 07, completing a year’s worth of search numbers from each of the three companies that report them; Compete, Nielsen/Netratings, and Hitwise.  So what can we learn from all …

Fortune Magazine’s blog post "The hard side of Mr. Softie", where some old school strong arm tactics are ascribed to Microsoft in trying to get startup  Web 2.0 companies to use Windows Live Messenger is interesting in a …

According to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, he’s hearing more rumors that Microsoft is poised to buy Limelight Networks, a CDN (content delivery network) from which Microsoft recently licensed technology, apparently to build their own …