I came home from work today to find multiple notifications from readers that LiveSide (and other sites) had been setting off Anti-Virus detectors, and a link to an article on ZDNet: Antivirus firm: Google text ad Trojan detected.  According …

We use a number of Windows Live services at LiveSide, and now our Community Server guru, Nick Brown, has started a CodePlex project, “Community Server Windows Live Addons”, at www.codeplex.com/CSLive. He’s starting out with two controls:

Currently there

Just in from our friends at Windows Live Chronicles, traffic info has been added for 3 Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal – so now Phunky can detour around that black line near downtown.…

Live Search and Live Search Maps continue to improve their offerings, with the latest being an update to m.live.com, for mobile search.  After downloading a small installer, maps on your mobile browser are made interactive, with easy zooming and …

So yeah it’s kind of a slow news week, not much happens just before the holidays, when things will really shut down.  But there’s been quite a conversation going on among the blogs about Enterprise v. Consumer/Microsoft v. Google/Old Way …

Our service provider, 1and1.com, has notified us that we will be down for a few hours this coming Sunday evening/Monday morning:

In preparation for moving your server to the new, state-of-the-art
1&1 Data Center, we will need to briefly

Well it took a few days, and I actually got an email saying it would be a few more, and hey watch this video while you’re waiting, but then an invite was waiting for me in another account this evening.  …

Live Search Maps announced via their blog today that a new Chinese version is now available, at www.ditu.live.com (ditu (地图) means maps in Chinese, according to our friend PicturePan2, who was of course already all over this news and has …

Some interesting information from Vincent Tao, Senior Director of Virtual Earth and Live Local Search at Microsoft, from an interview by Brady Forrest at O’Reilly Radar.  While maps.live.com is fully available in China, the ditu.live.com version does not presently …

Phil Holden points out that a new version of Windows Live Messenger is available for almost all  phones, by accessing MSN Mobile, for both WAP 1.x and WAP 2.x phones.  If you’ve use MSN Mobile on your phone you should be …