LiveSide Stickers Giveaway

OK so you guys rock.  Thanks for all the help on getting LiveSide Wave 3.x going, and for all your input.  We love feedback, we love tips, and we really appreciate all the comments and suggestions.  Keep it …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 18th, 2007 at 3:50 am

Live ID sneaks in Info Card right under our noses

We’ve been telling you about Info Card for quite a while, but in all the excitement (and a few bugs to iron out) surrounding the new Live ID associations with LiveSide Community Server log in, it took us a minute …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

Windows Live Calendar dogfood running – Get ready for a beta

It was hinted at earlier in the week with the Windows Live Hotmail update, yes the Windows Live Calendar beta is fast approaching.  Its now available to some special people in a dogfood form (pre-beta) at http://dogfood.calendar.live.com/. Unfortunately if you aren’t …

By Chris in Featured News
August 17th, 2007 at 7:27 am

Windows Live ID Web Authentication Is Final

image The web authentication SDK for Windows Live ID has hit version 1.0 today and is now available for download, according Angus Logan’s blog post. This means that websites can now easily integrate the Windows Live ID login to …

By kip in Developer
August 16th, 2007 at 7:03 am

LiveSide Now With Live ID Goodness

What’s going on here?! Two sign in buttons?

Don’t fret, you’re not seeing a bug, it’s the new Windows Live ID SSO addon I’ve built for Community Server.

You can now choose how to sign into Liveside.net, via the normal …

By Nick in News
August 16th, 2007 at 5:08 am

Windows Live Hotmail gets update – 5GB inboxes for free, 10GB for Plus

Yes the Hotmail team has been quiet for a while since their v1 launch, however they’ve just launched a small but feature-packed update. As well as offering free accounts the new storage size of 5GB, paying customers (Hotmail Plus …

By Chris in News
August 14th, 2007 at 7:46 am

More information (and some speculation) about Hotmail

With the announced release of Windows Live Hotmail still rolling out, a bit more information has come out in the form of some blog posts from Hotmail team members. 

First, Steve Kafka goes more in depth into cleaning up your

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
August 14th, 2007 at 1:33 am

LiveSide Wave 3.3 – Mobile

LiveSide.net on your mobile.  Simply go to liveside.net, and it’ll redirect you to the mobile version of the home page.  Please note that it’s only for the homepage news so you wont get the thinned down theme on the rest …

By Nick in News
August 10th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

More Home.Live.com goodness

From the “woah, Microsoft is UNSTOPPABLE” category, Chris just noticed that the color of the (too large??) header turns colors with the changing time of the day.  Here in sunny Seattle we’re still in the light blue zone:

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(while we’re …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 10th, 2007 at 8:47 am

SkyDrive With Spaces and Writer [Plugin Updated]

With SkyDrive not even 6 hours old, we already have our first addins for it. The Spaces and SkyDrive team have just unveiled a new module for your Windows Live Space, one that shows the public folders you have on …

By kip in News
August 9th, 2007 at 6:39 am