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Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!

damaster — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:44:18 GMT

Windows Live Alerts have finally gotten a facelift and joins the rest of the Windows Live family in getting the “Wave 3” look – making it one of the last Windows Live services to make the switch (Video Messages just made the switch a month ago, and there’s ~~only~~ My.Live.com, Gallery and Silverlight Streaming left to go). Interestingly, Alerts totally skipped the “Wave 2” look and went straight from the good old Flair/Blue Vapour theme to the new one. Enough said, here’s a screenshot of the new look:

From initial testing, it doesn’t seem like it contains any new features as part of this update, besides the new “Featured Alerts Providers” homepages for each country/region. The link for website owners to sign-up and create their own alerts for their website was also removed from the homepage. The supposedly “new” feature for content owners to create custom Branded Alerts and Alert with Advertisement that was under limited beta testing previously was also not apparent in this update:

We also heard that it may become part of the new Azure Service Platform. At least this shows that Windows Live Alerts is still alive!

Thanks to Picturepan2 at LiveSino.net and BV2312 for the heads up!

Live Search introduces News Alerts, have your news delivered to your inbox

Sunshine — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:43:39 GMT

Don’t want to go on the web to read your news? How about having it delivered to you? You can now. Live Search introduces News Alerts:

Now you can have your news delivered to your inbox every day, twice a day, or just once a week. You can get top headlines, headlines for a specific area like business or world news, or the latest stories related to a search you define. You can set up as many different alerts as you want and send them to any email address associated with a Live ID.

Setting up an alert is easy:

1. Go to news.live.com.

2. Sign in with your Live ID (or get one if you haven’t already).

3. From any page within news search (like the default page for top stories or the results page associated with a search), click the News alerts link (in the right column).

4. Click Create alert.

You can unsubscribe from the alerts once you start receiving them.

Unfortunately this feature is only available in the US, so you may have to “trick” the site into thinking you are in the US. You can do that by going to http://www.live.com/, click your country, you will then be forwarded to http://search.live.com/worldwide.aspx, where you can set it to the US.

Watermarks for Windows Live Alerts

Kip Kniskern — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:36:00 GMT

Brandon points out that Bink is testing a new service from Windows Live Alerts, one that will let website owners replace the alert bell in the "toast" with a logo.

Indeed, this looks like a cool new feature of Windows Live Alerts, which seem to be running much faster than MSN Alerts did (or is that just me?).

Alerts goes Live

Chris — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:44:00 GMT

The MSN Alerts service has now been migrated over to Windows Live, and is available from http://alerts.live.com . "Get headlines from your home town, scores and updates for your teams, stock quotes, traffic for your commute-just about anything that...(read more)