January, 2008

A new page on LiveSide: read our favorite blogs (and subscribe!)

To celebrate attaining 6,000 RSS readers (it changes everyday, but we’ve been steadily climbing over the past months), today we’re introducing a new page on LiveSide, the LiveSide Blog Sampler.  We read a lot of blogs in order to …

Ray Ozzie at Mix08

ozzie If  you took the time to check out our feed sampler you may have already noticed the news that Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and the successor to Bill Gates when he steps down from daily duties this …

Some thoughts on DataPortability.Org, (and data portability)

Data portability is an idea long championed, and becoming more important all the time.  As we continue to load our online lives on to various social networking sites, the concept of making it easy to get that information back off …

Wall Street Journal signs up with Microsoft for Contextual and Paid Search advertising

Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party ad provider for the Wall Street Journal network of sites, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com and others.  From the press release:

“This deal is a significant win for Microsoft

New Windows Live Community in China

Our good friend PicturePan2 has been working hard on a new project, a new Windows Live Community in China.  I asked him to write up a post on it, in English:

Hello everyone, I am Picturepan2 from LiveSino, also the

Horizon & Windows Live Core – Microsoft registers domains for dogfood

Its been almost a year since we first mentioned Windows Live Core, the project lead by Ray Ozzie to establish Microsoft’s software as a service platform and not much has been said since then. Microsoft hasn’t acknowledged its existance, despite the …

Microsoft reports 30% growth in revenue – Online Services with $1.1bn of costs in Q2

Microsoft just announced its financial results for the last quarter, with record figures being given for the company as a whole. Overall its 30% revenue growth that’s the big gain, giving record second quarter results and this coming straight …

Insert IMMe Link Plugin

In a recent post Angus Logan Click to IM Angus Logan talks about adding someone else’s online presence as a link in a blog entry when you’re referring to them (it’s worth making a note how he gets the CID, as his example uses LiveSide …

The Traffic Gadget is Back!

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OK, it’s formally called the Live Search Maps gadget, but that’s a mouthful so most people simply call it the "traffic gadget". The traffic gadget was taken off the market for a few months for "security reasons" (not unlike like …

Anonymous MSBob reveals more on Windows 7 and Windows Live – Long Zheng

Our friend Long Zheng, at istartedsomething, received an interesting and long comment on his Windows 7 post yesterday.  While of course we can’t confirm that MSBob actually is an insider, what he says from what we can tell is …