Windows Live Spaces takes aim at Facebook’s News Feed

Microsoft rolled out a killer feature that we haven’t talked about yet in their last Windows Live Spaces update.  They are calling it “Windows Live What’s New” and it acts as a direct competitor to Facebook’s News Feed.  …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
October 12th, 2007 at 5:14 am

Windows Live Today becomes customizable

The MSN UK Homepage team reported that the switch on an updated version of Windows Live Today was flipped last Tuesday. Looking for the changes of the feature that can be reached from within Windows Live Messenger I was disappointed …

By Gregor in News
October 12th, 2007 at 1:48 am

Photos and Windows Live Spaces: Embed photos or albums.

The latest improvements coming to Windows Live Spaces introduced a few changes to the way photos are handled, but with all of the announcements about Events and the changes to SkyDrive, you may have missed what has just happened.  We …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 12th, 2007 at 1:30 am

Spaces, SkyDrive, Events: Changes in the works

Looks like some of the changes we’re expecting are starting to roll out in Spaces land – new SkyDrive integration, a changed Spaces “What’s New” page, and more Events sightings (although no sign of the product itself, yet).

Jamie T. …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 11th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

Office Live Small Business: our interview with Michael Schultz

olsb With 450,000 domains in use with Office Live (now Office Live Small Business), its becoming clear that there is a market for a connected set of services helping small businesses to establish, maintain, and grow a web presence.  We …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
October 10th, 2007 at 4:36 am

Ramping up for Windows Live Events (and maybe Groups too?)

Remember the Wave 2 launch dates given last month by Microsoft France? It seems that Windows Live Events could be just around the corner after a link to the service  was spotted in a Live Search cached page. What makes …

By Chris in News
October 8th, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Windows Live strategy session: “Go Ahead and Be Honest”

Larry Hyrb, known to the Xbox Live community as “Major Nelson“, revealed that he will be in a meeting next week with Ray Ozzie, among others, to talk about the future of Live Services at Microsoft.  Major Nelson …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
October 6th, 2007 at 11:19 pm

SEM Services Being Added to Office Live

image SearchEngineWatch is reporting today that Office Live is to get a SEM offering to the services in its Office Live Small Business market. So what is SEM? It’s Search Engine Marketing and basically it means getting your website higher up …

By kip in News
October 5th, 2007 at 7:42 am

Live Search Maps: the best is yet to come

We haven’t talked much about the changes coming to Live Search Maps, for a couple of reasons.  The first and foremost, of course, is that its not live yet, and it’s kind of hard to talk about the changes without …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
October 4th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

Microsoft announces HealthVault: Search, Store, Connect health information

HVLogo Some changes to https://health.live.com caught our eye last night, and today Microsoft announces HealthVault.  The new set of services, which you can access from health.live.com, provides a secure place to search, and also to collect and store health information …

By Nick in News
October 4th, 2007 at 3:39 am