Windows Live Search snippets

Here’s a few things relating to Search that caught our eye this week:

By Chris in News
February 11th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

Live.com to get social – share your own pages

In a relatively un-noticed post on the Windows Live Gallery blog last week, a new feature called Windows Live Collections was mentioned. Collections are pre-made Live.com pages with feeds and gadgets that you can add to your own Live.com homepage. Although the …

By Chris in News
February 11th, 2007 at 8:00 am

New Spaces themes available

Karen posted on the Space Craft yesterday that there are some new themes available for your Spaces blogs – including some LeBron James ones that are part of an upcoming LeBron challenge on MSN (for those international readers who haven’t …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 10th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

Enough Branding Jokes: Why Windows Live Hotmail is a good name that’s bad

Really.  At some point this has just got to stop.  Someone has got to get enough Kahunas at Microsoft to figure out a branding strategy for Windows Live, stick with it, and get on with the business of building a brand …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
February 9th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

Windows Mobile 6 to include tight Windows Live integration

Tonight, Brandon LeBlanc reported on the impending release of Windows Mobile 6.  He pointed out some pretty cool integration with Windows Live.  Windows Live for Mobile will be included in Windows Mobile 6.

As you can see in the …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
February 8th, 2007 at 2:59 pm

Windows Live Mail Desktop Gets Update

Tanja on the Live Mail Desktop team blog has announced that the February refresh of WLMD is now available via Windows Update. For XP users go to http://update.microsoft.com/ and for Vista users, click the Start button and just type Update. …

By kip in News
February 8th, 2007 at 7:33 am

Windows Live Mail? No? How about Windows Live Hotmail….?

Ok, so this whole Windows Live rebranding thing has been pretty messy at times, services renamed, sometimes many times (Live Maps anyone?) and today sees this trend continue. So first off we had Hotmail, then Kahuna (this was the codename), then …

By kip in News
February 8th, 2007 at 4:59 am

Windows Live.com Happy Valentine’s Day Template

Happy Valentines! 

Ok… maybe it’s a little bit to early but still St Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so why not apply this Happy Valentine’s Day Template to your Windows Live.com Homepage and bring out the love in you!  …

By Darren Straight in News
February 6th, 2007 at 5:54 am

Yahoo! gets into the Gadget game

Gadgets, one of my favorite Vista features, allow you to customize your Sidebar and desktop with anything from search boxes to a variety of system tools and games.  Microsoft Gadgets, much like Apple’s Dashboard widgets, can be developed …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
February 6th, 2007 at 3:55 am

NineMSN new Home Page UI: more January Effect?

Thanks to our tipster down-under Beau, here’s a peek at the new look for ninemsn.com.au, the MSN/PBL joint venture and one of the most popular websites in Australia (thanks to it being the default home page for Windows computers …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am