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Thank you Live Search for Mobile! (<- yes, the name is a mouthful, but it gets the job done.) Yesterday was Easter Sunday here in the US. In the morning, my 2 year-old son had tough congestion and was wheezing, a sure sign of croup . He's had this
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In August 2007, a major highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, Minnesota . Since then, the media has been filled with lots of reports of bridges in bad shape around the country . It forced virtually every state in the nation to evaluate the conditions
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The new version of Live Maps is being rolled out this week. Lots of new features. Check out the post from the Virtual Earth team for more details. In summary: New & streamlined user interface Party Maps! Formally known as 1-Click Directions Route
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ReMIX07 Boston – Monday-Tuesday, October 8-9, 2007 On the frontiers of the Web, boundaries are blurring—developers and designers, advertisers and publishers, software and services, media and technology, TV and PCs, PCs and mobile devices, producers and
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Yesterday, I posted about the new Windows Live Writer beta that is available. Two of the other applications in the Windows Live family released new betas yesterday also: Mail & Messenger . You can get the latest Windows Live Messenger bits here .
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Today, the Windows Live Writer team released beta 2 of their blogging tool. The previous beta has been out for quite some time now, and a must have tool to have in your arsenal as a blogger! I've been privy to several internal betas the past couple of
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This week is the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, Ca. It's a conference hosted by O'Reilly Publishing where all the major players in the online "map wars" come out to show off their wares. There's a lot of competition in this space these days that makes
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Via Andy ... If you thought it was hard to get nicely formatted code from your favorite IDE into your blog, you'll be pleased to check out the "Paste from Visual Studio" plug-in for Windows Live Writer . Live Writer is a great tool for posting to your
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Last week, I lamented the fact that Virtual Earth has been virtually ignored and provided some thoughts as to why I thought that was so: Poor marketing. I still think that's a major issue, and have been sharing my thoughts on that with the product team.
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You know, of all the online "Live" services that Microsoft has, I think the mapping service has been one of best. However, hardly no one knows about it! On Thursday last week, Google added their new myMaps feature to Google Maps. Wow! The tech community
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For the past couple of weeks that I've been a delinquent blogger, it sure seems that way! I've seen things that I never thought I'd see, as well as things that I haven't seen in a long time. First off, in the category of things I haven't seen in a long
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Three of the new Windows Live services officially shed their "beta" tag today. Live.com is a personalized portal/RSS aggregator that allows you to customize your feeds and news as you like. Plus, you can add various Gadgets to the page, or build your
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Let me save you some time if I can with a known issue in the Writer beta. Doh! My previous post, which just got posted moments before this one, was actually finished earlier this morning. When I hit the Publish button, I received the following error:
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Yesterday, a new Windows Live release arrived: Windows Live Writer. When I first heard about Writer internally a few weeks ago, my first thought was, "Oh wow! Are we really doing an online word processor?" But after reading past the teaser introduction,
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Well, I'm back from a month of changing diapers and spending some quality time with my two little ones. One month... it goes by so fast, seems like it was so quick that nothing significant could have happened. But, my oh my... what a month! Let's see,
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