Windows Live

In addition to MySpace (click here for details), Windows Live will see 22 other third-party feed partners and four new contacts partners added to the service. The additions will be rolled out globally to the 500+ million Windows Live users over the course of the week. The most prominent of the…

According to a recent post on the Windows Live Hotmail blog, Windows Calendar has updated the “Birthday Calendar” feature. In the past, if you wanted to add birthday information for one of your Windows Live contacts, you had to do so in your contact list. With the update, however, you can now add…

Today, MySpaceID, MySpace’s open alternative to Facebook Connect, went live on the Windows Live platform. MySpaceID typically offers a way for users to connect their profile information from MySpace to third party sites. Unlike Facebook Connect, MySpaceID (as well as the rest of the MySpace Open…

As of today, Windows Live Movie Maker is officially out of beta and available to download for FREE as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite. Victor Santodomingo, Windows Live Movie Maker Engine Development Lead, joined me in the studio to demonstrate the new Movie Maker…

At OSCON today the Microsoft Eduation Labs group released a Windows Live services plug-in for the open source Moodle e-learning platform. Kosar Jaff joined me in the studio for a demonstration of Moodle and a look at how his group incorporated Windows Live services into the Moodle…

Photobucket, one of the world’s most popular photo-sharing websites, is preparing to release a new tool for finding photos on the site: a visual search engine. With this feature, Photobucket users can search the site’s 8 billion photos by keyword. The images will appear as search results, and you…

The Windows Live team has just announced a new feature that will definitely appeal to heavy users of SMS as well as those of you whose phones don’t feature a good web browser for using online services: it’s SMS for Windows Live! Now, those of you in the U.S. and U.K. (sorry, others) have access to…

According to a recent post on the WindowsLiveWire blog, the Windows Live Movie Maker beta software is undergoing some changes in preparation for the launch of version 1 of the software which will be released later this year. Based on user feedback, the team is revamping Movie Maker to include more…

If you already use the Windows Live Mail application, a free desktop email program, you may be familiar with one of its better features – the ability to email photos without worrying about attachment sizes. When you use the program’s photo email feature (like Kylie does here), the software…

This is a personal invite from James Senior to attend the Live Services Hackathon in San Francisco on May 27, 2009. Bring your code and work with the Live Services engineers to add Instant Messaging, Friends lists and more to your website.