New Map App, My Friends, shows you where your Facebook friends are

MyFriends Want to see where your Facebook friends are in the World? Now you can with the new My Friends map App! This map app uses Facebook APIs to pull in your friends from Facebook (only those who have listed a …

By Sunshine in Bing
June 11th, 2010 at 12:27 am

The New Windows Live Sync Beta

Windows Live Sync Logo Over on Inside Windows Live, David Treadwell just posted about the new Live Sync beta. He wrote about how Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh Beta. Yuhuh, the two are …

By Sunshine in News
June 10th, 2010 at 8:57 pm

Images on Google home page: great PR for Bing?

Yesterday, in order to promote the ability, rolled out last week, for you to be able to set your own background image on the www.google.com home page, Google turned on the feature internationally for a 24 hour period, according to …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 10th, 2010 at 7:13 pm

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 1

With the FIFA World Cup South Africa right around the corner, Bing can not escape on doing something for all the Soccer fans.

They are kicking off by integrating World Cup information, live scores of matches, group standings etc. into …

By Sunshine in Bing
June 10th, 2010 at 2:05 pm

More on the Bing Spring update

Spent a good part of the day today at SMX Advanced, first at the keynote/”fireside chat” with Yusuf Mehdi and Danny Sullivan, and then in a session on Bing’s upcoming new Webmaster Tools.  Just as we were writing …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 10th, 2010 at 7:12 am

Bing announces new Social vertical

At SMX Advanced in Seattle this morning, Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi demoed a new “social” vertical coming to Bing, set to go live “within the hour”.  The new page features real time results from Twitter and Facebook, filtered …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 9th, 2010 at 7:24 pm

More Windows Phone Developer News

During the keynote and a Windows Phone 7 session at TechEd North America 2010, Microsoft showed off a newer build of Windows Phone 7. Long Zheng has put up some images of this new build. He notes that the …

By Sunshine in Mobile
June 9th, 2010 at 11:55 am

The OneNote Web App is here!

We told you Office Web Apps went live this week. But what we didn’t write about yet is that yesterday a part of the Office family that was missing got added: OneNote. Yes, that’s right there’s also a OneNote

By Sunshine in News
June 9th, 2010 at 10:31 am

Bing Earth Day Student Contest Theme Pack

Remember the Bing Earth Day Homepage student Contest? The contest was a great success, contest participants (all you voters) made donations totaling more than $110K towards classroom projects on DonorsChoose.org.

People requested and redeemed the $5 donation codes …

By Sunshine in Bing
June 8th, 2010 at 11:48 pm

Localized Hotmail addresses?

Since yesterday you can get a Hotmail.nl address in the Netherlands.
Hotmail.nl - Is jouw naam nog vrij?
Now we were wondering, are you getting such localized Hotmail addies in your country too? If not, would you like there to be? Let us know in the comments …

By Sunshine in News
June 8th, 2010 at 6:26 pm