An interesting discussion is shaping up across a number of blogs, all relating to Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Watch posting a number of graphs showing MSN (Live) Search to be losing market share to Google.  Sullivan posts this graph showing …

Straight from the Google blog is the new that Google Answers is closing down, with the acceptance of new questions stop later this week. The surprising admission that they only had about 800 users replying to questions in 4 years of operation does …

Today I submitted another gadget to Microsoft’s gadget gallery that works on both Sidebar AND Live.com/Spaces. Its a sample digital clock gadget to accompany an upcoming article that I’m writing titled “Gadgets: Write Once, Run Everywhere“; an article that shows …

As promised, Office Live is beginning to move into markets other than the US, with betas in France, Japan, Germany, and the UK.  In the UK, the first 10,000 beta testers to sign up will get a free co.uk …

In this article, I will show you how to develop a web gadget (i.e. a gadget designed to run on Live.com or Windows Live Spaces) that will run on Windows Vista Sidebar without modification to the JavaScipt or CSS! This …

We’ve just started up an opinion blog to run alongside the blogs we have running already. Why? Because we feel that there are subjects we’d like to discuss in more detail and depth than we can do in our usual …

When Microsoft introduced Windows Live a little more than a year ago, a couple of questions immediately popped up; what is Windows Live, exactly? and why is it different than MSN?  A year later, those questions haven’t been answered.  Yes, there has …

As Nick has shown over on Windows Vista Blog, not only can you add the Windows Vista Countdown gadget (talked about here on LiveSide.net) to your Live.com/Spaces web page and Windows Vista Sidebar, you can also add it to …

Virtual Earth? Local.live.com? Maps.live.com?  It’s all so confusing.  We’ve suggested just changing the name to Maps and be done with it, and recently there have been signs that the change has occured.

First, http://maps.live.com works, and doesn’t resolve to http://local.live.com…

This is a re-print of a post that I did on my blog. I thought I’d post it here in case you missed it. Look for my companion article in the next few days about how to write one gadget …