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Welcome to LiveSide, ummm, 2.0

Well if you're reading this you've made it to our new site!  We have just made the switch to Windows Server 2003/Community Server, and we're excited about it, even though it's been a lot of work migrating over.

With a …

Updating the news on updates

As we said, both code-name Max and Live.com released updates on Friday.  Max added RSS and ATOM feed reading to the photo sharing and more to come product, as well as support for the .Net Framework 3.0 rc1. You can …

Messenger 8.1 Beta released to testers

Word is out that Messenger 8.1 is up on Connect for the testers, mostly Windows Live Butterflys, who have been accepted into the program, some 1689 testers, Mess.be is reporting, although many more are “pending”. 

JCXP reports that roaming has …

Microsoft Max to upgrade

Microsoft codename Max, the photo organizer/feed reader that is really going to be more about storing, organizing, and sharing content of all types, is about to upgrade, according to their blog:

Over the next few hours, we’ll be upgrading

An Active Live Writer community

Scott Lovegrove’s “Insert Spaces Emoticon” plugin to Live Writer is the latest in a steady stream of plugins for the Windows Live beta product. Mike Torres of Spaces talks about his favorite Live Writer plugins wlwplugins.com continues to

News over the weekend

It's the Labor Day Holiday here in the US, and everyone is pretty much gone for the three day weekend, but it gives us some time to catch up on some news.

As noted elsewhere, Windows Live Search has upgraded

A Post on Gadgets and Plugins

Thomas J. points to a number of new Gadgets for Spaces, including Hangman and Pong, a Mortgage rates watch, a Technorati Search Gadget, and a Gas Prices Gadget, among others.

And recently Dare pointed out problem with memory leaks

News Roundup: Video Search, Live Drive, Video Publishing

From around the web, today – first Brandon at MSTechToday points out the link to the new video search capabilities of Windows Live Search. You can try out these beta features at beta.search.live.com/video/

There's also news about Live Drive coming …

Read/Write Web interviews George Moore

Richard MacManus posts an interview (today, 8/23) with George Moore, GM for Windows Live Developer Platform, who recently called Windows Live Spaces the largest blogging service on the planet, getting Robert Scoble all in a tizzy. Robert later came

The new Ideas.live.com is up (again)

After a couple of perhaps unintentional sneak previews, the newly designed Windows Live Ideas, or ideas.live.com, is up and running. The portal to Windows Live beta projects sports the orb and the vapor of course, and what is becoming …