Our guy Nick, Community Server MVP and all around good guy, has just added /mobile/ to our site.  Now when you sign in on a mobile device, you should be automatically redirected to a more mobile friendly version of …

Windows Live Expo has just announced a new update to the service, including integrated payment via PayPal, job listings via CareerBuilder, featured ads by AdMission – initially in the real estate and autos sections, better search, and tighter …

While we're waiting to get a peek at Soapbox (well more than the dancing butterfly, anyway), here's some Windows Live news:

• Danny Thorpe writes that the Windows Live Contacts Gadget is due for an update soon, one that's going to

Paula Hane at Information Today writes about a new search technology that may soon be included in Windows Live Search – faceted search.  One of many search projects coming out of Microsoft Research Asia’s Search Technology Center, faceted search tries …

MSN Soapbox, which we wrote about on Sept. 7, the user uploaded feature now in internal beta as "Warhol" is set to be released into beta tomorrow (Tuesday), according to MS employee and Warhol tester Kurt Shintaku.

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Office Live, the web hosting, custom domain, and website creator, may soon be incorporating another feature: an online version of Microsoft Works, according to Business Week:

The company is working on plans to offer a free version hosted on

A new version of the Virtual Earth SDK is out, that's the very nicely done interactive SDK at dev.live.com.  New features include:

Add Custom Tiles:
     Generate map tiles using the MapCruncher from Microsoft Research to add custom overlays, in …

Now you can add maps and directions to your Outlook meeting requests, see

Today Microsoft announced the official launch of three Windows Live services, Live.com, Windows Live Search, and Windows Live Mobile.
Windows Live Search, will by Thursday become the search engine for MSN, according to Ken Moss in the Live Search …

Windows Live Local, “powered by” Virtual Earth, has come out of beta, too.  Looking quite polished, with Bird’s Eye Views added for many cities (take a look at the collection, thanks to the Virtual Earth blog) , Live …