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
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
BuddyFuse, 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 …
Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock
A post on a Neowin forum crossed our path this weekend (thanks for the tip, CalumJR!): apparently the poster was hanging out at Bldg 88 (which does house parts of Live Search), and spotted a “Countdown to Kumo” clock 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
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 …
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