February, 2008

Nielsen Online Web stats for UK in 2007: Google, WL Messenger in lead

Nielsen Online released some interesting web statistics for 2007 in the UK last week, which we found via Mess.be.  Google Search was the most popular website in the UK in 2007, averaging 25.1 million British visitors each month, with …

Spaces v13 released: Hey Spaces team – blogging, ever hear of it?

News is filtering out that a new version of Spaces has been released, apparently last week, on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14).  Our friend Dev at Hack MSN Spaces has a partial list of the changes, the most visible being the …

Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google – Online Video

First let’s take a look at some comScore statistics on this one:

VIDEO

Google Video Sites:
Google Video
YouTube

Yahoo! Video Sites:
Yahoo! Video
Yahoo! Live

Microsoft Video Site(s):
MSN Video (includes Soapbox)

Note: YouTube.com accounted for more than 97 percent

LiveSide news: New poster Sunshine, expanded Yahoo! news, more

sunsh Our newest poster, Sunshine, from the Netherlands, has recently joined us to help out with all the news.  She has started a series of comparisons between Windows Live and Yahoo! services, and has been generally helping out keeping up with …

Attention all students! Imagine Cup Software Design Windows Live Award

Windows Live Developer Program for Mobile Announced

msnmobile The Windows Live team has announced a structured mobile developer program that provides access to Live services in order to build rich and interactive, connected applications. This program is open to ISV (Independent Software Vendors), OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers, like …

Windows and Online Services get closer on Valentine’s Day with Microsoft reorg

Its been a while coming, but the latest Microsoft re-org has now been announced after several weeks of speculation. That’s not to say the earlier stories weren’t correct though, as Steve Berkowitz will be leaving Microsoft later this year.

The big …

Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot

Over at meraTechPort, Vasudev reports the launch of the Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot:

Microsoft Research Machine Translation team has come out with an IM Translation Bot. MTBot prototype project which made it possible to combine machine translation technology

Crawler Improvements for Live Search Announced

 Live Search Webmaster Center Blog announced the following updates:

Today we’re pleased to announce several improvements in the crawler for Live Search that should significantly improve the efficiency with which we crawl and index your web sites. We are

Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google – Instant Messaging

Time to take a closer look at IM.

IMcomparison

Here we can see that worldwide MSN-Windows Live Messenger is taking a big lead, whereas Yahoo! Messenger is taking the lead in the U.S. Google is way behind.

Some features compared:

Instant