2007

Live Search updates mobile search at m.live.com

mlivecom Live Search and Live Search Maps continue to improve their offerings, with the latest being an update to m.live.com, for mobile search.  After downloading a small installer, maps on your mobile browser are made interactive, with easy zooming and …

Pay attention to FeedSync

So yeah it’s kind of a slow news week, not much happens just before the holidays, when things will really shut down.  But there’s been quite a conversation going on among the blogs about Enterprise v. Consumer/Microsoft v. Google/Old Way …

LiveSide Data Center Update notice: Down for maintenance

Our service provider, 1and1.com, has notified us that we will be down for a few hours this coming Sunday evening/Monday morning:

In preparation for moving your server to the new, state-of-the-art
1&1 Data Center, we will need to briefly

Our first look at Office Live Workspaces

Well it took a few days, and I actually got an email saying it would be a few more, and hey watch this video while you’re waiting, but then an invite was waiting for me in another account this evening.  …

Live Search Maps – the Chinese version

Live Search Maps announced via their blog today that a new Chinese version is now available, at www.ditu.live.com (ditu (地图) means maps in Chinese, according to our friend PicturePan2, who was of course already all over this news and has

More on Live Maps in China: O’Reilly interviews Vincent Tao

Some interesting information from Vincent Tao, Senior Director of Virtual Earth and Live Local Search at Microsoft, from an interview by Brady Forrest at O’Reilly Radar.  While maps.live.com is fully available in China, the ditu.live.com version does not presently …

Microsoft Acquires MultiMap

Microsoft today announced that it had acquired MultiMap, “one of the United Kingdom’s top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world.”

The acquisition gives Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology

Announcement: LiveNet Wrapper for Windows Live Developing

My friend Luke Smith and I for the last month have been working on a new .Net wrapper for Windows Live, which we have called LiveNet. You might be thinking “what’s the difference between that and Windows Live Tools“, …

New version of Windows Live Messenger for MSN Mobile available

Phil Holden points out that a new version of Windows Live Messenger is available for almost all  phones, by accessing MSN Mobile, for both WAP 1.x and WAP 2.x phones.  If you’ve use MSN Mobile on your phone you should be …

Microsoft launches mobile advertising on MSN Mobile

Microsoft is today announcing the launch of mobile advertising on its range of MSN Mobile services in US, with mobile advertising already existing on MSN sites for users in Japan and some European countries. Advertisers will be able to extend their ad …