December, 2007

A look at the Live Maps high-res cameras [Updated]

Didn’t get the digital camera you wanted for Christmas? Then maybe you should consider buying yourself one of these, an UltraCamX Large Format Digital Aerial Camera. Producing images with a 216 megapixel resolution, these cameras are used to take the …

Microsoft seeks younger audience with YouTube and Facebook ads

Long has picked up on Microsoft’s latest advertising strategy, YouTube. Several videos promoting the benefits of using Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows Live have been uploaded in the past week, unfortunately it seems as though nearly all of the …

The LiveSide 2007 recap and a look at 2008

Its at this time of year that people post their yearly recaps and scorecards, whilst looking ahead to the following year. While I’ve seen a generic Microsoft 2007 scorecard and a reminder of the branding mess that Microsoft created for itself in 2006, I haven’t seen …

Messenger InterOp: Old news is no news

Things at LiveSide have been a little quiet lately, as we enjoy the holiday season, and frankly enjoy a little break as Windows Live news has slowed until the new year.  News, and our snooping around it, will pick up …

Microsoft places FeedSync under Open Specifications Promise

Received a nice email today from Steven Lees, a member of the CSA Concept Development Team at Microsoft, announcing that Microsoft has placed FeedSync under the Open Specifications Promise.  According to Lees from his email:

"As I think I

Apparently a Trojan virus on LiveSide came from our Google Adsense

I came home from work today to find multiple notifications from readers that LiveSide (and other sites) had been setting off Anti-Virus detectors, and a link to an article on ZDNet: Antivirus firm: Google text ad Trojan detected.  According …

Community Server Windows Live Addons now on CodePlex

We use a number of Windows Live services at LiveSide, and now our Community Server guru, Nick Brown, has started a CodePlex project, “Community Server Windows Live Addons”, at www.codeplex.com/CSLive. He’s starting out with two controls:

Currently there

Live Search Maps adds traffic for 3 Canadian cities

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Just in from our friends at Windows Live Chronicles, traffic info has been added for 3 Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal – so now Phunky can detour around that black line near downtown.…

Tafiti Search Visualization – Overview

If you head over to Codeplex you will find a number of Contoso Quick Applications posted there. Each one demonstrating various aspects of the Windows Live platform and showing you a “real world” style application that makes use of them, …

Microsoft launches Tafiti source code as a Windows Live Quickapp (Plus, a LiveSide giveaway)

Earlier today Microsoft made available the source code for tafiti.com as part of the Windows Live Quickapps series. For those of you interested in the quickapps you should definitely subscribe to the Windows Live Alerts for instant notification of …