The Live Search team have just launched a cool competition in partnership with the Gnomedex conference where developers can win $10,000 and other cash prizes that have in impact on the economy or earth’s ecology.  The only caveat is that submitted applications must use Live Search APIs! You can...

I blogged last week about the new documentation available for customizing the registration and sigin-in pages for Live ID and we’re already starting to see some examples in the wild. LiveWIM , a site for tracking your whereabouts and letting your friends know, have gone and implemented and the results...

The beauty of services is that it provides the ability to add new features rapidly and discretely.  I was playing around with some of my photos on http://home.live.com earlier and when looking at an album’s thumbnails it gave me an option to install a new feature that made my thumbnails look even...

Yummy! No longer will I have to use the god-forsaken Facebook photo upload tool – thank you Will Duff!!!! http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/pages/Plug_2D00_ins.aspx Windows Live Photo Gallery (Beta) and Windows Live Movie Maker (Beta) make it simple to add publishing support for 3rd party sharing services. Simply...

  Hop, skip and jump start into Live Services with these 2 day technical courses on how to build amazing consumer web applications and unlock the critical mass of users quickly to make your idea fizz. There are 11 locations around the world where we’ll be handing out the knowledge and knowhow so...

There’s news all over the internet this morning about Windows Cloud after Ballmer bounded into London and delivered a number of presentations to customers and press.  Talking about Google and cloud computing, he acknowledged the need to land an OS in the internet for customers and developers to...

Exciting announcement for the Live Search guys, we’ve signed a deal with Facebook that will see us power their search capability and provide advertising on Facebook.com.  Nice! Microsoft Press Room TechCrunch Reaction Live Side Reaction

I've refrained from posting anything about Windows 7 until now but it seems that this week the lid was lifted - albeit only a fraction - on what you might be in store for with the next version of Windows.  Steve S gave an interview where he danced around release dates and features and functionality...

I'm liking this new feature of Live Search Images, I can do a search and do some quick refining and tweaking to get the results I want really quick.  It's a great way of honing in on the stuff you really want to find without having to be really specific right from the start. Check it out here: http...

This mashup was forwarded to me today which maps on Virtual Earth all the recently updated Live Spaces pages.  Pretty nice example of how you can pull this information together.  In fact you could do something pretty similar with Popfly with hardly any effort at all. Check out Windows Live...

You'll be glad to hear that Live Maps UK is no longer redirecting Multimap - well done for all your feedback - we made a difference and changed their mind! Power to the people!

Hat's off to the detective work the Live Side guys are doing to get to the bottom of Ray Ozzie's hinting at what is being dubbed "Mesh" network.  Catch all the details here: A killer app on the Horizon- - Live Mesh and the future of synchronized storage

The Live Search team in the UK have come up with a cool promotion where you can win stuff by searching using Live Search - I've not won anything yet but I'm still trying! Check it out on on BigSnapSearch.com

Woah been a busy past couple of weeks.  Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs!  Although I didn't move far it was fairly stressful and I'm now left with a weekend of unpacking.  Oh and joy, there was no BT phone line...

Times certainly are exciting for Scott and the boys over at the community site for all things Live - www.liveside.net . Virtual Earth I've been wanting to blog about the new version of Virtual Earth, for example, and describe some of the excellent new features as well as the improved, much more slick...