Creating Custom Avatars: A Microsoft tool, and others

First, thanks for all the input on our recent upgrade.  We really appreciate it.  Nick has done a great job for us – if you use Community Server, or want to, his contact information is at the bottom of our …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:21 am

Liveside Wave 3.1

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Yesterday we released a newly redesigned Liveside.net.  In the poll, about 50% of you voted that it needed work.

Well after a days worth of work, I’ve managed to make of the suggested themes into a CS 2007 theme.  …

By Nick in Featured News
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:49 am

Windows Live Agents – Sign Up Now For The SDK

image Windows Live Agents might be a new term for some people, but the idea of them certainly isn’t: Windows Live Agents are basically Messenger bots that you have in your contact list. One of the more popular bot creation tools …

By kip in Developer
August 1st, 2007 at 6:43 am

LiveSide Wave 3.0 Is Here

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Chris noted that Wave 2 of the Windows Live products and services is fully underway with new updates coming in the future, well, I would like to announce the release of Wave 3 of Liveside.net.

As you should now be …

By kip in Featured News
August 1st, 2007 at 6:21 am

Windows Live QnA experiences problems

A heads up for those of you who use Windows Live QnA beta – apparently it’s experiencing some difficulties at the moment:

(from the QnA blog)

Hi folks,

The QnA site is currently encountering problems, as many of

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 31st, 2007 at 11:44 pm

Windows Live Folders beta expands tomorrow

Hot off the press is an email sent to some of those who signed up for the Windows Live Folders beta and don’t yet have access.

“Subject: Windows Live Folders — opening soon!

Thanks for signing up for the Windows
By Chris in News
July 31st, 2007 at 6:28 am

Windows Live Wave 2 – How it looks so far

With the Windows Live Wave 2 rollout expected this autumn/fall, Kevin Johnson describes it as “the must-have free upgrade to the Windows experience.” Is Kevin being optimistic or is there enough available already to warrant this description?

The launch of …

By kip in Opinion
July 31st, 2007 at 4:27 am

Financial Analyst Meeting 2007: Windows Live Suite, Live ID, and Cloud Infrastructure

As you may or may not know, Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting wrapped up a few days ago.  There were a few important points for Windows Live that were talked about, so let’s jump right into that.

Windows Live Suite

By Harrison Hoffman in News
July 30th, 2007 at 5:16 am

Yes Hotmail was having a few problems

I love the blogging policy and speed of the Hotmail team.

“Just wanted to let everyone know we’re aware of the difficulties accessing Hotmail/Live Hotmail right now – you may get “Server is Temporarily Unavailable” when logging in. We’re working

By Chris in News
July 27th, 2007 at 1:57 am

Microsoft and Ask.com call for search privacy protection

Microsoft announced Sunday evening a “commitment to call on the industry to develop global privacy principles for data collection, use and protection related to searching and online advertising.”  According to the press release:

“Microsoft and Ask.com are proposing that leading

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:38 pm