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More Tough Love: LiveSide interviews Danny Sullivan about Live Search

smxadvancedlogo Danny Sullivan, Editor in Chief of Search Engine Land, conference organizer for Search Marketing Expos and Search Marketing Now, and all around search guru, took some time with us today to talk about Live Search, in conjunction with the …

Visualizing Swine Flu On Virtual Earth

The Swine Flu, who hasn’t heard of it yet, and who isn’t tracking it? It’s all over the news; tv, sites, the blogosphere and twitter of course. Now you can also track it on Virtual Earth:

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Live Mesh updated for Mobile, Mac, Live Desktop

livemeshblog A new service update is now available for Live Mesh Mac, Mobile, and Live Mesh Desktop has been updated as well, according to a post on the Live Mesh team blog.

The release “continues to tune performance” and has …

Windows Live Profile (April) update is here!

As announced one week ago, the newly updated Windows Live Profile has been rolled out to all users now! A summary of all the changes that were part of this update include:

  • 20 new Web Activities, including Facebook,

BuddyFuse, Connecting The Social

BuddyFuseBuddyFuse, created by Dutch Computer Science student and former Microsoft Intern Yousef El-Dardiry, Jeroen Bransen and friends, integrates third party (social / IM) networks into Windows Live Messenger. By doing this you can chat with your friends on …

Windows Live Home New Feature: Word-wheel Contact Search in Header Search Bar

It seems like Windows Live Home has been silently updated overnight with a few new hidden features. Sunshine already uncovered one for us a few days ago regarding the new Web Slice support for your What’s New feed. Jamie …

Live Search cashback “exponentially growing”: 5M pageviews and 10k purchases every day

cashbacklogo Live Search cashback hasn’t publically shared many numbers that we’ve seen, so these numbers kind of jumped off the screen when we noticed them in a Tweet.  Clicking through to the article, the numbers weren’t attributed, but it wasn’t …

Some more on those MSNbot complaints

Yesterday the Live Search Webmaster blog posted on how to send feedback on MSNbot behavior, which Sunshine reported.  While it doesn’t go into details about what kind of complaints might be registered, apparently lately there are plenty.

We’re not …

Live Search: What To Do When You Have Complaints About MSNbot

Making improvements to the quality and depth of the Live Search index often affects how MSNBot collects data. So what if you have complaints about the bot behavior and crawl frequency, how do you leave feedback?

As the Live …

Photosynth Experimental Viewer Now Main Viewer For Photosynth

Some news we’ve missed out on: Photosynth got updated again. The experimental Silverlight viewer has now become the main Photosynth viewer. This means that not only PC users, but also Mac users can view the synths, comment and mark them …