November, 2009

Creating the Microsoft Executive Pivot (we play, and you can too)

We’ve been giving away Live Labs Pivot codes (and yes, we have more to share later on in this post), but after returning from PDC and learning a bit about the new “experiment” from Live Labs, we’ve finally been able …

The Climate Mystery – A Bing Maps Game for Thanksgiving

Feel like doing something else on Thanksgiving than playing Pictionary, Risk or Trivial Pursuit? Chris Pendleton suggests the following:

imageInstead of breaking out the Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit or Risk you can logon to The Climate Mystery game featuring Bing

Eye On Earth (Europe)

Wondering about the water quality, maybe not so important now unless you like a very very cold swim but well.., or the air quality in your country/neighbourhood (Europe)? Check out the European Environment Agency’s Eye On Earth portal. …

Windows Live at PDC: Live Framework Calendar sync coming?

Last Thursday we attended the only Windows Live PDC session, entitled “The Audience API: Live Framework Present and Future”, presented by Windows Live Senior Program Manager Todd Manion.  In the session, which revisited the Messenger Web Toolkit and …

Microsoft, Bing, and Murdoch: The Annoyance Factor

murdoch A story in Sunday’s Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have been holding preliminary talks to pull News Corp. content from Google, and for Bing to then pay a premium for that content.   There’s quite …

A Bing boycott? Why not boycott China?

Yesterday in a blog post, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called for a boycott of Bing, because of the way it handles Chinese characters searches outside of China when searching for politically sensitive (to China) material.

Today in …

Windows Live Essentials & Services Book

For everyone who wants to get the most out of Windows Live: The Windows Live Essentials and Services Book.

imageThis book by MVP Brad Jones and Marcus Schmidt is a full-color, step-by-step guide for using Microsoft’s new Windows Live

Bing Maps China updated

Bing Maps China has updated their site with tons of new data and some new features:

  • Yellow Pages – Over 8 million yellow page listings are now searching from Bing Maps China.
  • Business Photos – Hundreds of thousands of business

Bing begins showing “latest posts”

One sure fire way to get a new feature noticed is to attach it to TechCrunch, and indeed TC noticed a new Bing feature yesterday that appears on Bing search results for “TechCrunch”:

binglatesttechcrunch 

The “Latest posts” feature only appears …

PDC 2009: Day 2 announcements

Now the liveblogging is over, let’s take a look at what was announced today.

Silverlight

image A whole lot was said about Microsoft Silverlight, going through some features of Silverlight 3 but most of all of Silverlight 4! Yes, today …