Hotmail Wave 3 includes Web Messenger for some lucky readers

Well we’re still waiting for the new Hotmail, but we really appreciate the tips and feedback we’ve been getting, and the comments.  Special thanks this time to one anonymous reader, who not only has the new Hotmail, but also a …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 1st, 2008 at 8:22 pm

Live Search Perks – more rewards for using Live Search

It all started with Live Search Club, the somewhat maligned program to reward users for playing games using Live Search (and somewhat skewing search share counts, causing a bit of a scramble by Compete.com and others).  Then last May …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 1st, 2008 at 8:48 am

Hotmail slow to release, experiencing engineering issues?

This morning the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support blog posted the following message, only to take it down again sometime later in the day:

We are aware that some Hotmail customers are experiencing an issue seeing their folders with the

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By Kip Kniskern in News
September 30th, 2008 at 4:05 am

Hotmail spotted in the wild

Just as we suspected, once we posted on “where’s Hotmail”, we started getting reports of sightings.  Thanks to LiveSide reader Graeme (who is getting his website at www.bitsticks.com running, should be up soon) we have some screenshots:

After Login - Before Inbox

welcome screen

Flower Theme I Think

And Graeme was …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 29th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

What happened to Hotmail?

Last week, after receiving a “tip” from Microsoft’s PR firm Waggener Edstrom, we posted on the coming rollout of a new version of Hotmail.  Our readers were quick to try and catch the new version in the wild, checking out …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 29th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

Video – Getting Started with the Virtual Earth Web Service

VEWS was just released and after a few attempts myself to get it working I thought I would share a short video on the sign up process and adding the references to Visual Studio 2008.

VEWS

Video after the break:…

By John OBrien in Developer Featured
September 29th, 2008 at 11:32 am

WooHoo! Avatars!

View spaceWell, I’m excited anyway.  We’ve had a few small but quite annoying issues with our recent upgrade server move, and the one affecting our readers most has been the inability to upload avatars.  Well as of tonight that’s fixed :), …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 28th, 2008 at 6:14 am

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 4

In the last part of this tutorial we covered the links and the new Show and Hide functionality of the Sign-In control. In this part, as promised, we will get to the customization options that are available to you with …

By kip in Developer
September 27th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 3

In the last part of this series we added the necessary framework to put in the place the sign-in control and get it working.

MessPlainSignIn

So now that you’ve got the sign-in control displayed in your User Control, what can you …

By Hackersoft in Developer
September 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 2

Following on from the first part of this article where we managed to register Ajax classes and get a basic outline that we can play around with for our new messenger User Control, we come onto logging in to web …

By Hackersoft in Developer
September 25th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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