July, 2009

Soapbox video recovery: not so bad

Lately all of our favorite services seem to be crapping out on us.  We told you about the upcoming demise of MSN Soapbox, where we have a number of videos hosted.  Users have until August 31, 2009 to head to …

Seadragon.com – Convert Any Image On The Web Into A Deep Zoom Image!

image Ever wanted a deep zoom image of a huge image already uploaded to the web? Now you can. The Seadragon team in Live Labs has released a service that lets you easily turn those pictures into nice zoomable UIs: Seadragon

Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Fix An Export Related Bug

To all you Deep Zoom Composer users out there, please uninstall your current version and get the latest:


dzcicon
Download Deep Zoom Composer


This version fixes a fairly serious bug related to the image paths generated during export. More information on …

Bing home page featured I-35W Bridge on 2nd anniversary of collapse

Most of the time, the images on the Bing home page are pretty pictures, sometimes with topical connections, but rarely controversial. Today’s US image was a little different, before it was apparently pulled and replaced by an image of a …

BuddyFuse Web Messenger

BuddyFuseWeb Remember BuddyFuse, the extension to Windows Live Messenger that integrates third party (social/IM) networks into Windows Live Messenger? Well, they did it again. As we all know MSN Web Messenger retired on June 30th and you can only access …

Yahoo! powered by Bing, but not much more?

msftyhoodealsigning As widely expected, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal (very early) this morning, a 10 year agreement to have Bing power Yahoo! searches, with Yahoo! controlling ad sales.  Last night we asked a few questions, and by digging down …

Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest, And The Winner Is…

We told you earlier about the Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest. The contest has now ended. Out of the 10,000 submissions 9,400 photos got accepted. That’s quite a few pictures to be reviewed and rated, 13,206 unique raters helped. …

Our first take on MSFT-YHOO: Less than meets the eye?

binglogo A search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! hasn’t even been announced yet, and yet tidbits of information are being analyzed, scrutinized, and dissected all across the web.  Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web sees bad news for search innovation of the …

New Bing ads: showing off the good stuff

The first in a new series of Bing ads appeared last night in the US on the Conan O’Brien show.  Two weeks ago, Yusuf Mehdi promised the new ads, saying:

Lastly, stay tuned for a new set of Bing ads

Microsoft Wave Launched

MicrosoftWaveNo, not Wave 4, we are still waiting for that, but Microsoft Wave.

Microsoft Wave is a new site from Microsoft’s UK team that shows off the latest developments and products to come out of Microsoft. You will …