Tips for adding Facebook Web Activity on your Windows Live Profile

FB Windows Live Profile was just recently updated with the ability to add 20 new Web Activities, and one of which includes Facebook. Like many people (including readers on LiveSide and Windows Live Wire’s team blog), I have had problems …

By damaster in News
May 5th, 2009 at 10:44 am

A note on some LiveSide housekeeping

We’ve been doing a little spring cleaning here at LiveSide, and just wanted to note a couple of things:

RSS

Our RSS feed, from Feedburner, is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/liveside.  Feedburner (owned by Google) has changed their address a couple of times …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 4th, 2009 at 9:59 pm

NewCloudApp() Azure Developer Contest: Win $5000

azure-logo_2 Just announced today, NewCloudApp(), The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge, offers US based Azure developers a couple of chances to win exposure via Azure.com and major Microsoft events, Channel 9, the Structure Azure conference, and a $5000 Visa Gift …

By Kip Kniskern in Developer
May 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am

Sheila the Laptop Hunter: Only 2gb ram for $2k? – meh

Our friend Imran Hussain has spotted the latest Laptop Hunter ad, this time featuring Sheila the videographer:

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Sheila ends up with an HP HDX 16t, after passing on a $2000 Mac with a classic shrug.  …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 1st, 2009 at 9:09 am

Microsoft’s new free anti-malware solution gets closer: a new name for Morro?

El Morro, in San Juan, Puerto Rico Last year Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows Live OneCare, and turn instead to develop a new, free security product, code named Morro.  We’ve heard that Morro has already been in limited alpha testing, that it’s …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 30th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

Live Search turns off search crawler, starts SEM blog series

bot Search Engine Roundtable has been following a thread at WebMaster World concerning some disturbing behavior from MSNbot, the crawler Live Search uses to find and index information on the web.  As of last night (April 28), the offending “feature” …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 29th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Windows Live Video Messages Has Now Been Updated To Wave 3

VideoMessagesWave3Windows Live Video Messages has now been updated to Wave3, as promised nearly 2 weeks ago. As you can see it now has the Wave 3 header, so you can navigate easier between all the Windows Live services.
  …

By Sunshine in News
April 29th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Virtual Earth Imagery Release, April 2009

This month’s Virtual Earth imagery release is 9+ TB of data, all ortho again, covering over 1 million square kilometers of Earth. There have been new releases and/or updates for the following countries:

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil,

By Sunshine in News
April 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am

Tellme coming soon to Windows Mobile 6.5

tellmelogo Microsoft bought Tellme back in March of 2007, and released an app for Blackberry last year, so we’ve been expecting to hear the news that came out today, that Tellme will be available for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones this …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 29th, 2009 at 8:49 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
April 29th, 2009 at 7:53 am