Nielsen Online released some interesting web statistics for 2007 in the UK last week, which we found via Mess.be.  Google Search was the most popular website in the UK in 2007, averaging 25.1 million British visitors each month, with …

News is filtering out that a new version of Spaces has been released, apparently last week, on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14).  Our friend Dev at Hack MSN Spaces has a partial list of the changes, the most visible being the …

First let’s take a look at some comScore statistics on this one:

	Google Video Sites: Google Video YouTube Yahoo! Video Sites: Yahoo! Video Yahoo! Live Microsoft Video Site(s): MSN Video (includes Soapbox)
Note: YouTube.com accounted for more than 97 percent

Our newest poster, Sunshine, from the Netherlands, has recently joined us to help out with all the news.  She has started a series of comparisons between Windows Live and Yahoo! services, and has been generally helping out keeping up with …

Angus Logan just made us aware of the Imagine Cup Software Design Windows Live Award in his post Are you a student? Want to compete for $10k and a trip to France? Imagine Cup Software Design Windows Live Award:…

Its been a while coming, but the latest Microsoft re-org has now been announced after several weeks of speculation. That’s not to say the earlier stories weren’t correct though, as Steve Berkowitz will be leaving Microsoft later this year.

The big …

Over at meraTechPort, Vasudev reports the launch of the Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot:

Microsoft Research Machine Translation team has come out with an IM Translation Bot. MTBot prototype project which made it possible to combine machine translation technology

 Live Search Webmaster Center Blog announced the following updates:

Today we’re pleased to announce several improvements in the crawler for Live Search that should significantly improve the efficiency with which we crawl and index your web sites. We are

Time to take a closer look at IM.

Here we can see that worldwide MSN-Windows Live Messenger is taking a big lead, whereas Yahoo! Messenger is taking the lead in the U.S. Google is way behind.

Some features compared:

Virtual Earth For Government reports that New York City Transit has adopted Virtual Earth for their public trip planner:

Arguably the largest transit in the world, New York City Transit, today announced that it has released a new version of