As we posted earlier, a new relaunched MSN Soapbox has been announced, and is available for trial for those who are in the Soapbox beta.  In addition, a new version of MSN Videos, at next.video.msn.com has launched as well, …

A post on the Soapbox Team Blog has alerted users that a change is coming as the Soapbox site goes down for a couple of hours whilst they make some changes to both the front end and the back end …

Mary Jo Foley is reporting, citing an internal memo, that Live Search General Manager Dane Glasgow is leaving Microsoft to “work for various nonprofits and spend more time with his family”.  Glasgow was one of a few direct reports …

Live.com has offered, among many others, a gadget to put your Windows Live Mail on a Live.com page.  Problem is that the gadget hasn’t worked for quite some time, and now we have an explanation, and a reason for …

So far I’ve shown you how to create basic plugins for Windows Live Writer, in this next guide I’m going to show you how you can use settings in your plugin to make things easier for your end user, …

While news on the “Live Drive” front has been rather non-existant of late, there are some signs that may be about to change. A new service, Windows Live Folders beta, was recently listed on the Windows Live Feedback site, …

So we’re playing with sending messages via Spaces, and its kinda cool!

To send a message, first (you must be signed in), hover over a profile pic somewhere in Spaces, and you’ll get an open window:

 Just click on …

Some new stuff and some interesting numbers from Spaces: it’s now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 million people a month use Spaces. More …

Just a reminder with all the new stuff to play with on Spaces, we have a LiveSide space at http://windowsliveside.spaces.live.com.  Add us to your friends list, sign our Guestbook, and send us a message!

And yes we realize we …