Community Server Windows Live Addons now on CodePlex

We use a number of Windows Live services at LiveSide, and now our Community Server guru, Nick Brown, has started a CodePlex project, “Community Server Windows Live Addons”, at www.codeplex.com/CSLive. He’s starting out with two controls:

Currently there

By Kip Kniskern in Developer
December 20th, 2007 at 4:00 am

Live Search Maps adds traffic for 3 Canadian cities

torontotraffic

Just in from our friends at Windows Live Chronicles, traffic info has been added for 3 Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal – so now Phunky can detour around that black line near downtown.…

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 18th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Tafiti Search Visualization – Overview

If you head over to Codeplex you will find a number of Contoso Quick Applications posted there. Each one demonstrating various aspects of the Windows Live platform and showing you a “real world” style application that makes use of them, …

By Hackersoft in Developer
December 18th, 2007 at 6:21 am

Microsoft launches Tafiti source code as a Windows Live Quickapp (Plus, a LiveSide giveaway)

Earlier today Microsoft made available the source code for tafiti.com as part of the Windows Live Quickapps series. For those of you interested in the quickapps you should definitely subscribe to the Windows Live Alerts for instant notification of …

By Chris in Featured News
December 18th, 2007 at 6:20 am

Live Search updates mobile search at m.live.com

mlivecom Live Search and Live Search Maps continue to improve their offerings, with the latest being an update to m.live.com, for mobile search.  After downloading a small installer, maps on your mobile browser are made interactive, with easy zooming and …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 18th, 2007 at 3:13 am

Pay attention to FeedSync

So yeah it’s kind of a slow news week, not much happens just before the holidays, when things will really shut down.  But there’s been quite a conversation going on among the blogs about Enterprise v. Consumer/Microsoft v. Google/Old Way …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
December 17th, 2007 at 4:22 am

LiveSide Data Center Update notice: Down for maintenance

Our service provider, 1and1.com, has notified us that we will be down for a few hours this coming Sunday evening/Monday morning:

In preparation for moving your server to the new, state-of-the-art
1&1 Data Center, we will need to briefly

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 15th, 2007 at 2:04 am

Our first look at Office Live Workspaces

Well it took a few days, and I actually got an email saying it would be a few more, and hey watch this video while you’re waiting, but then an invite was waiting for me in another account this evening.  …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 14th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

Live Search Maps – the Chinese version

Live Search Maps announced via their blog today that a new Chinese version is now available, at www.ditu.live.com (ditu (地图) means maps in Chinese, according to our friend PicturePan2, who was of course already all over this news and has

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 13th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

More on Live Maps in China: O’Reilly interviews Vincent Tao

Some interesting information from Vincent Tao, Senior Director of Virtual Earth and Live Local Search at Microsoft, from an interview by Brady Forrest at O’Reilly Radar.  While maps.live.com is fully available in China, the ditu.live.com version does not presently …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 13th, 2007 at 3:37 am