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Bing Feature Update: Enhanced Bing Entertainment Sharing to Facebook

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Today, Bing team officially announced two social features: One is the Bing News with Twitter public tweet updates that Kip talked about yesterday. Another is about enhanced Bing Entertainment sharing feature.

This week Bing released a new way …

Twitter on Bing/News; Bing on Facebook-not so much

A pair of social networking tidbits featuring Bing – first, according to a tweet tipping Search Engine Land by Bing Program Manager Min John Lee, Bing Social is now surfacing  “Public Updates” on the news results page.  The streamed tweets …

Bing for Mobile browsing gets better for iPhone and Android: Windows Phone support coming “later this year”

Bing has updated its m.bing.com mobile browsing experience again, iterating for every platform but Microsoft’s apparently, as browsers with HTML5 support (Windows Phone 7 not among them) get fresh and new content while the built in Bing experience in Windows …

Bing adds Shopping Mall maps

Last week our friend PicturePan2 was here from Shanghai, and I spent more time in shopping malls (looking for the elusive iPad2, long story) than I had in years.  We could have really used Bing’s Shopping Mall maps!  For those …

Bing adds “Attractions”

Microsoft’s Bing continues to add features to its Travel vertical, this time announcing “Attractions” in a blog post on the Bing Search blog.  Attractions bring together a number of bits of information for some 52,000 attractions around the world, offering …

Bing steps in it with JapanQuake retweet campaign–updated with apology

or… how not to run a Twitter campaign.  Today, about two hours ago, Bing posted a message to their Twitter account, promising a $1 donation, up to $100,000 for Japan quake victims.

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update: The people behind the Bing …

Searching for news on the Japan earthquake: we find Bing maps lacking

Not the kind of news you want to get from Twitter last night as one last check of the news left us agasp at the magnitude and destruction of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan yesterday at about 2:46pm …

Bing and Google Maps AJAX performance compared

Last November, Bing Maps rolled out their version 7.0 of the Bing Maps AJAX control, which meant that users could view enhanced Bing Maps without Silverlight, and developers could work more easily with Bing Maps in their AJAX applications.  …

Katy Perry Revenge 2 by Bing!

Katy Perry 2Remember that Katy Perry iPhone app sponsored by Bing? Yes, that’s the one, Katy Perry Revenge! If you liked that one, and can’t get enough of Katy Perry, then I have got some news for you!

Now there …

Bing teams with Angry Birds

Bing is teaming with Rovio, the folks behind Angry Birds, to put a new twist on the birds vs. pigs saga. You can watch as the pigs scheme creative ways to get their hooves on the treasured eggs via …