May, 2009

Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT

bingLogo_lgIf you want to watch instead of read about Bing, then join the Bing Webcast at June 1st.

Here’s how to join in:

1) Set your alarm clocks for 10AM Pacific Daylight Time, Monday, June 1

2)

Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out

We haven’t been able to get our hands on Bing until today,  and we’ll have more as we dig deeper into it, but we wanted to give you some quick first impressions.  There’s lots of promotion for “the decision engine” …

Why Windows Live Messenger Is Shut Off For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US

Last week we told you about Microsoft Shutting Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US (Error 810003c1). We can tell you a little bit more about the “why” today.

Let’s take a look …

Some quick takes on Bing

Well the story we’ve been following for the past year, the rebranding of Live Search, reached a big milestone today with the announcement (finally) of the new name, Bing.  While the name itself has yet to grow on us, we …

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

BingLogo Steve Ballmer just announced Microsoft’s newest search offering on the D7 stage. He introduced it by showing a video, a Star Trek parody called “A bold search for a new name.” The video runs over Microsoft’s chronic re-naming of its …

Announcing The Messenger Web Toolkit Interactive SDK!

We already told you about the Live Messenger Web Toolkit and accompanying site http://messenger.mslivelabs.com/.

Also on this site is the Interactive SDK: 
MTKInteractiveSDK
This Interactive SDK makes starting out with the Messenger Web Toolkit even easier for developers. To get …

Carol Bartz, CEO Of Yahoo!, Willing To Sell Search For “Boatloads Of Money”

In an entertaining, slightly off color, and by some accounts inspiring performance at D: the All Things Digital conference, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz left the door open for a search deal.  That deal would have to be made …

LiveSide registration temporarily unavailable, sorry

We’re having a little issue currently with our user registration as some jokers try to take advantage of our generous registration policies.  While we continue to figure out how to best deal with the problem (and clear out the hundreds …

Live Writer for Windows Mobile?

Twitter has been abuzz the last 48 hours about a new project that appeared on CodePlex: Windows Live Writer for Windows Mobile. This sounds very promising, and looks like quite a good little project (albeit a slightly iffy UI). …

Some more on Bing.com – that confusing trademark will soon become Blinko

Microsoft acquired Bing.com in March, and has a network all set up:

bingnetwork 

but as we reported last week, there’s that pesky little US Patent and Trademark Office to get around.  The problem is with Bing Mobile, which is …