MySpace connected service to be removed from Windows Live

We kind of saw this coming, but reports have been floating around that the MySpace connected service will soon be removed from Windows Live Profile. This means that users will no longer be able ... Read more »

Is Bing cranking up new social features?

Much has been made recently both about Google’s somewhat forced entry into social search as it tries to compete with Facebook, and with Bing’s much friendlier relationship with not only Facebook, but Twitter.  Last ... Read more »

Twitter photos now appearing in Windows Phone’s Pictures hub

We all know that Microsoft added Twitter integration as part of the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update. The integration allowed you to view Twitter feeds in your People hub, reply or retweet to them, ... Read more »

Twitter comes back to Windows Live Profile, but feed access still limited to Windows Phone only

A few more updates came as part of today’s Windows Live update (version 16.2). One of this includes Windows Live Profile, which received some clean-up to its Connected Services page. Services that you connected ... Read more »

Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter

@Bing and @Twitter followers got treated to an interesting back and forth today as Bing and Twitter are apparently ready to announce an extension of their relationship.  Back in July, Twitter ended a relationship ... Read more »

How to: Get Twitter and LinkedIn contacts syncing with your Windows Phone “Mango” Beta 2 Refresh build

Microsoft released the “Beta 2 Refresh” build (Build 7712) of their latest Windows Phone “Mango” OS to developers earlier this week. If you are a registered developer on App Hub and haven’t upgraded, you ... Read more »

Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango”

We reported a few weeks ago that Microsoft had been testing Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” and Windows Live internally. Today, the Windows Phone team posted several new videos on their YouTube account, ... Read more »

Twitter and Microsoft: What’s the deal?

A post at All Things D yesterday revealed that, after Twitter and Google parted ways (at least temporarily) recently, things maybe aren’t going so well in negotiations to renew the relationship between Twitter and ... Read more »

Twitter confirmed to be coming back to Windows Live

Microsoft discontinued support for the Twitter connected service in Windows Live back in June 2010 due to policy changes made on Twitter’s end, and never reached an agreement with Twitter since then to make ... Read more »

Microsoft Analytics for Twitter

Ever wanted to get Twitter statistics inside Microsoft Excel 2010? Now you can with Microsoft Analytics for Twitter. Microsoft Analytics for Twitter allows users to query Twitter (i.e. Tweeters, #hashtags, @mentions & keywords) and ... Read more »