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Windows Live: It’s Live! I Think! Partially! Stay Tuned for More!
Technologizer —
... the situation with the new “Wave 3″ upgrades to the company’s Windows Live services. They’ve been public knowledge since at least early this year . Then there was an official announcement three weeks ago . And today the company has announced that the first of the new services–Wave 1 of Wave 3, I guess– are rolling out to everyone over the next twenty-four hours . With more to come. The new items include updates to Windows Live’s Home , Events , Spaces , and SkyDrive , and new services including Groups , Photos , ...
Jamie gets mad at spam and Spaces; and hears about new anti-spam measures
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
Jamie Thomson, an avid blogger and Windows Live enthusiast, blogs regularly on his Spaces blog about Windows Live, but today he had enough. Having to deal with and delete 51 comment spam posts on a recent blog entry in the space of an hour got the best of him, and he fired off a rant, calling out Spaces for their perceived lack of attention to comment spam: As happy as I am to see Windows Live Wave 3 rolling out this week and as much as I offer my thanks and congratulations to the people that built it I can no longer hide my anger and resentment toward those same people –some of ...
New wave of updates for Windows Live web services rolling out
Bink.nu —
As Brian announced a few weeks ago, Windows Live is in the midst of releasing a new wave of updates for the web, for your PC, and for mobile devices. Today we’ve started releasing the first set of updates to our web services, and these will continue to roll out globally over the next 24 hours – including a new version of Windows Live Home , Spaces , Events , and SkyDrive , as well as completely new web services such as Windows Live Groups , Photos , and Profile . New header for Windows Live First, you’ll notice a new ...
Getting Started With Google Friend Connect
louisgray.com —
... of the gadget. You can share a website with your Gmail contacts by clicking the Google tab. It's not limited to Gmail contacts, any email address will work. You can also add a quick, personalized note with the share. The share tab takes it a step further up the social ladder by allowing you to post the website to Facebook, Myspace or Del.icio.us. You can also submit the site to Digg, Fark, Mixx, Live Spaces and StumbleUpon. In its current state it needs more social networks and ...
Changes to the Spaces header
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... you have a consistent way to navigate to and from all the Windows Live services. Here’s the old header in Spaces: And here’s the new one: If you don’t see the new header yet, wait a day or so – we’ve got a lot of users to roll this out to, and it generally takes a little while to get updates out to everyone. I just checked on mine and it has already been updated for me, how about yours? Go, check out your space now. ...
Microsoft tweaks Windows Live Spaces header
(Obsolete Feed) —
Microsoft is making last-minute changes to the Wave 3 versions of its Windows Live client applications and Web services before it sends out beta invitations for Windows Live Wave 4. The latest improvement is for Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft's blogging portal. In November 2008, the Spaces team reworked the look and feel of the site, cutting down on the clutter and adding more customization. However, this change: "Using a simpler header that has less text than other pages in Windows Live," has now been reverted. ...
Facebook comes to Windows Live FrameIt, PowerToy now available for download
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... of what the new FrameIt Client PowerToy will look like. Today Windows Live FrameIt just got updated with Facebook integration – now allowing you to import your albums on Facebook into your FrameIt collection. Let’s see how this works: Firstly we can see now that FrameIt supports importing photos from a variety of online photo sharing sources: Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug and Microsoft’s very own Windows Live Spaces. It is frustrating to see that Windows Live Photos ...
Microsoft’s Blog Site Down 12 Times As Much As WordPress, Blogger
Podcasting News —
... Windows Live Spaces.
According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as Wordpress, Blogger and TypePad.
Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to see how much downtime they have. The included services were Typepad, Blogger, Wordpress.com, Blogster, Blog.com, Vox, Squarespace, Windows Live Spaces and LiveJournal.
They found that TypePad, Blogger and ...
