Earlier this week an article was posted prematurely on the Bing Blog which was about a new feature to allow users to embed a Bing Map on any website with the Twitter Map App features overlaid. Below you can see the options for the widget which is very easy to set up and embed with [...]
Bing has posted an article about how they and Microsoft are working with Facebook and the two points to note are that Bing is now powering the search for all 400m+ Facebook users and Microsoft will no longer serve ads for the social network. Its not a monumentally interesting post but if you look at [...]
Seeing as I am trying to make My Microsoft Life more social I thought I would share with you what people were tweeting about their “My Microsoft Life”, the results are varied to say the least. I have been following the “My Microsoft Life” search for a couple of weeks and from what I can [...]
With all my predictions for Windows Live Wave 4 I have been quite about Messenger only because I have had no idea what the team would be likely to do to improve the client, there were things I had wanted to see such as greater integration between social media and emails within the software but [...]
The other day I was very excited to see that Microsoft Tag were running a competition on Twitter to win a copy of Halo ODST, a Kodak Zi8 camera or an Xbox 360. I immediately tweeted and entered myself into the competition. I then saw that to win the Xbox users needed to get as [...]
Yesterday I shared with you all the list I had made of official Microsoft twitter accounts and today I have created a list of community who Microsoft from large websites to single bloggers to twitterers. It should be a great way to follow announcements and news about Microsoft. You can find it at http://twitter.com/Gilly2468/microsoft-community I [...]
To help everyone keep track of Microsoft on Twitter I have created a large list of their accounts from divisions to teams to individuals and you can find it at http://twitter.com/Gilly2468/official-microsoft-tweets I plan to keep the listed updated with new accounts all the time but if you think I missed of an account then please [...]
I just thought I would investigate if Twitter would be providing an easy way to add Twitter Lists to a web page and as it turns out they will be. By guessing at what the address for the widget would be I found this page. As you can see from the screenshot a security dialogue [...]
Bing have just announced that users can now search in real time by adding twitter to search results, currently the service is in beta. Test it out, bing.com/twitter. It looks like a good feature and should be great for searching breaking news or for finding out the very latest in specific topic, it should also [...]
I don’t know how it happened but I was in one of the earliest invitation roll outs for Google Wave and I was quite excited about it, however with few contacts on Wave it wasn’t much fun (not to mention that at the time I was getting internet on my PC through my phone). So [...]