June, 2006

Windows Live “Add to…” urls

To clarify, these urls can be used to enable visitors to your website to easily subscribe to your feed on Live.com, or add your site to their Live Favorites. (Right click – Copy Shortcut, then replace our site details with …

Creating CelebFavorites.com

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Some interesting bits are beginning to trickle in regarding Windows Live and developers. At trickybusiness, Richard "Tricky" Bassett blogs about creating celebfavorites.com, the demo Virtual Earth mashup that showed you some celebritie's favorite haunts. What's interesting about this …

Windows Live QnA invites go out

WLQnA new icon.jpgWindows Vista beta testers, living in the US (yes, yet another US only beta), got a little present in their inboxes tonight in the form of a Windows Live QnA invitation. Drawing on the Vista tester database is a clear …

Custom Domains goes v1

WLDomains icon.gifYet another launch for June, this time its Custom Domains, the personalised email service hosted on the Windows Live platform. Nearly all the beta users I've spoken to have been quick to praise Custom Domains, which is in stark contract …

Discover Windows Live Spaces

Spaces icon.gifThanks to Darren Straight who found this post by Satoshi, and a new web site – discoverspaces.live.com. The annotated screenshot provides a few clues about the new version, in addition to a cleaner, Windows Live looking UI. Looks like …

The Orb Menu makes an appearence

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That's right, the AJAX powered Orb Menu that Chris wrote on back in April, had made its first appearence on the newly launched Custom Domains site. It includes links to some other Windows Live services, a link to your …

Monday Tidbits post

Just some bits here and there today. To start, as promised, K*spot posted again on the Kanoodle problem in Spaces, and said that there should be a fix in by the end of the week. Speaking of Spaces, Ed Oswald …

Some more on Search

Last week, ComScore released some search numbers that were pretty sobering for MSN and Windows Live. Google continues to not only lead but gain in the market, and while there has been lots of activity on the MSN side, it …

Messenger Plus! Live released

WLMessenger new icon.gifI do not normally post about third party addons to Windows Live products, but Messenger Plus! is the exception to the rule. Created by a developer who goes by the name of Patchou, Messenger Plus! has become the most …

Virtual Earth Interactive SDK

dev.pngCarter Maslan points to the new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK at dev.live.com. This looks like a good way to get a feel for programming Virtual Earth, as you can choose what you want to do (show a map, find a …