After blogging about this nifty Windows Vista sidebar gadget a little while back, its now available for download on Windows Live Gallery. Even though the purpose of the gadget is pretty clear, Nathan Weinberg has a detailed post describing the in-and-outs. …

Tonight brings an update to the Live.com home page, allowing for sharing of Live.com collections, which we recently posted about. By clicking on the new “Share” button on Live.com:

You can share your Live.com collections, either by email …

Yet more juggling between MSN and Windows Live brands. The Windows Live Wifi Suite, including the Hotspot Locator, are soon moving over to MSN. Unlike the Windows Live Hotmail rebrand, the timing is much better, with the Wifi Suite not …

As you may or may not know, I have a video plugin for Windows Live Writer which will allow you to insert a video from sites such as MSN Soapbox and Youtube into your blog entries. This week I have …

As an ongoing part of MSN’s efforts to increase the amount of user generated content on its network, the Dutch MSN team has created MSN Reporter, a social news site similar to the likes of digg and reddit. Available in beta …

As we said in posts earlier this week, MSN has secured the online distribution rights to a new global concert event: Live Earth. From the press release:

SOS is designed to trigger a global movement to combat our

MSN Soapbox has been in an invite only state for a few months now, but today sees it enter its public beta phase, so no more waiting to get in and see what the fuss is about.

For those who …

Well, I’m not, so there . It appears that MSN are giving away a Zune in a sweepstakes over at http://homepage.msn.com/zune. So what do you have to do to be eligible for Microsoft’s MP3 player? Set your Internet Explorer …

As a followup to yesterday’s post “MSN to host Live Earth concert series” it appears as though the series of concerts is going by the name SOS – Save Our Selves. While the url http://sos.msn.com/ looks to be …

Just picked up on a killer app, coming from Yahoo’s web mail team.  Apparently, Yahoo is now integrating IM into their web mail client.  I haven’t been able to give it a go yet since it’s not available to all …