November, 2006

Windows Live.com Happy Holidays Christmas Template

Are you into the Holiday/Christmas spirit already? If so why not check out this Windows Live.com Happy Holidays Christmas Template, all you have to do to add it as your Live.com Template is click here.

Expo gets an update, adds Facebook sharing and more international support

The Windows Live Expo team just rolled out an update earlier today.  Here are the details, via the Team Blog:

  • Public availability in the UK and China!  Welcome to social classifieds, guys!
  • Upgrades to the “Communities” feature (formerly known

Why MSN (Live) Search is losing share: the blog conversation

An interesting discussion is shaping up across a number of blogs, all relating to Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Watch posting a number of graphs showing MSN (Live) Search to be losing market share to Google.  Sullivan posts this graph showing …

Google Answers closes, only 800 participants

Straight from the Google blog is the new that Google Answers is closing down, with the acceptance of new questions stop later this week. The surprising admission that they only had about 800 users replying to questions in 4 years of operation does …

Gadget Gallery: Please support unified gadgets

Today I submitted another gadget to Microsoft’s gadget gallery that works on both Sidebar AND Live.com/Spaces. Its a sample digital clock gadget to accompany an upcoming article that I’m writing titled “Gadgets: Write Once, Run Everywhere“; an article that shows …

Office Live beta begins in UK – Free co.uk domain names

As promised, Office Live is beginning to move into markets other than the US, with betas in France, Japan, Germany, and the UK.  In the UK, the first 10,000 beta testers to sign up will get a free co.uk …

Gadgets: Write Once, Run Everywhere

In this article, I will show you how to develop a web gadget (i.e. a gadget designed to run on Live.com or Windows Live Spaces) that will run on Windows Vista Sidebar without modification to the JavaScipt or CSS! This …

OurView – The new LiveSide opinion blog

We’ve just started up an opinion blog to run alongside the blogs we have running already. Why? Because we feel that there are subjects we’d like to discuss in more detail and depth than we can do in our usual …

Who Is Windows Live?

When Microsoft introduced Windows Live a little more than a year ago, a couple of questions immediately popped up; what is Windows Live, exactly? and why is it different than MSN?  A year later, those questions haven’t been answered.  Yes, there has …

Add the Windows Vista Countdown gadget to your own Website

As Nick has shown over on Windows Vista Blog, not only can you add the Windows Vista Countdown gadget (talked about here on LiveSide.net) to your Live.com/Spaces web page and Windows Vista Sidebar, you can also add it to …