Mobile LiveSide, attempted (beta)

livesidemofuse One thing Community Server (or Windows Live) decidedly does not provide is any kind of usable mobile solution.  Our pal Nick Brown set us up a mobile page, and it works for what it is, a quick look at the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Take our poll on Microsoft + Yahoo!

While we catch up on our reading about the latest acquisition news, we put up a little poll for you to let us know what you think about the announcement that Microsoft has made a 44.6 Billion dollar offer to …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm

Microsoft to buy Yahoo!?

y3 This news is hitting the internet pretty rapidly. Microsoft have offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion! This move is to try and bolster Microsoft’s position in the online services market in its continuing battle with Google. In some aspects, …

By kip in News
February 1st, 2008 at 9:21 pm

Some more on the acquisition: will Google’s revenue model hold?

Interesting that yesterday Ben Romano from the Seattle Times published an article on what Microsoft perceives to be the future of internet advertising, a future that doesn’t necessarily value Google’s model of contextual advertising in search.  He spoke with …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 1st, 2008 at 5:02 am

MSFT-YHOO: Striking while the iron is hot

y3Today’s announcement by Microsoft that it is offering $31/share to purchase Yahoo! outright sees Microsoft doing the right thing at the right time.  Why?  For a number of reasons, not the least of which being that Microsoft has been planning …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
February 1st, 2008 at 3:02 am

A new page on LiveSide: read our favorite blogs (and subscribe!)

To celebrate attaining 6,000 RSS readers (it changes everyday, but we’ve been steadily climbing over the past months), today we’re introducing a new page on LiveSide, the LiveSide Blog Sampler.  We read a lot of blogs in order to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 30th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Ray Ozzie at Mix08

ozzie If  you took the time to check out our feed sampler you may have already noticed the news that Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and the successor to Bill Gates when he steps down from daily duties this …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 30th, 2008 at 2:38 am

Some thoughts on DataPortability.Org, (and data portability)

Data portability is an idea long championed, and becoming more important all the time.  As we continue to load our online lives on to various social networking sites, the concept of making it easy to get that information back off …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
January 29th, 2008 at 4:50 am

Wall Street Journal signs up with Microsoft for Contextual and Paid Search advertising

Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party ad provider for the Wall Street Journal network of sites, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com and others.  From the press release:

“This deal is a significant win for Microsoft

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By Kip Kniskern in News
January 29th, 2008 at 3:45 am

New Windows Live Community in China

Our good friend PicturePan2 has been working hard on a new project, a new Windows Live Community in China.  I asked him to write up a post on it, in English:

Hello everyone, I am Picturepan2 from LiveSino, also the

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By Kip Kniskern in News
January 27th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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