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Display the year of publication for a Spaces blog post
One of the things that has irked me (and I’m being polite) about Windows Live Spaces since I started using it nearly three years ago is that only the day and month of a blog entry’s publication date...
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Aardvark
A couple of years ago I became an avid user of Any Question Answered, a service that invites you to pose questions via text message (i.e. SMS) to a merry band of paid answerers who would then send you...
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“View all photos of Dave” is coming
Back in January I posted a blog entry called Laundry list of wants for Windows Live wave 4 where I said: Photos.live.com should aggregate and allow us to view a slideshow of all photos of a particular...
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Linked Live IDs
Linked Live IDs are a little known feature of Windows Live so now that the Windows Live community clubhouse is in full swing I thought I’d draw some attention to them and perhaps suggest some ways...
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The problem of having too many people in your Windows Live network!
Some of them have got remarkably similar custom blog feeds!!! I feel a“Hide updates from….” coming on. Now, who shall I choose???
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New home.live.com enhancement spotted
I’ve just spotted a small new feature at http://home.live.com. You can now update your personal status message (PSM) at http://home.live.com without a full postback (i.e. without a page refresh). In...
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Strange goings-on in Windows Live web activity world
f you’ve checked your What’s New feed at http://home.live.com or your profile at http://profile.live.com in the last few hours then you may have noticed that many new web activities have been...
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Fix for Network spam
In amongst all the web activities and other new features in the April Windows Live update there was one small but significant update that has gone unheralded but which has fixed a problem that has...
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Untangling the Vine
Yesterday Microsoft announced a new service called Vine at http://www.vine.net and it caused quite a stir both in the blogosphere and Twittosphere. As one might expect of a web-centric product...
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I just got the following email from Vine.net which I spoke about yesterday in Untangling the Vine: Thank you for requesting an invitation to participate in Microsoft Vine. Invitations will be...
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