5 month ago
deusx : DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys - "Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any moment—no matter what your expectation was when you bought it.
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21 month ago
jimray : Christgau's consumer guide is live at MSN - Everyone who's in Seattle who's in to music likely has an opinion about Sean Nelson, but this is unequivocally a very good thing and he deserves serious kudos for making this happen
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29 month ago
Andy Baio : On Bots - analysis and great visualizations of Yahoo, Google, and MSN crawler activity for a year
joshua : On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers - Nice analysis of crawler behavior
Matthew M. Boedicker : beautiful graphs of search engine crawling behavior - (via slashdot comment) [via]
Milo Vermeulen : drunkmenworkhere.org - On Bots - results of a one-year experiment on search engine behaviour [via]
Nelson Minar : Search spider test - If I understand right, the best crawlers would crawl no pages here
Rod Begbie : Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content. [via] #
Philippe Janvier : On Bots - Analyse des comportements des robots des 3 plus gros moteurs de recherche. [via] #
Wayne Burkett : On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers - Very interesting crawler behavior visualization. #
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar - Requires Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
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34 month ago
kayodeok : MSN Search's WebLog : Windows Desktop Search for the Enterprise - Today at the IT Forum in Barcelona, the latest version of Windows Desktop Search (WDS) and MSN Search Toolbar, both enabled for easy enterprise deployment, will say "Hola!" to the world!
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Windows Desktop Search — Enabled for Enterprise - The latest version of Windows Desktop Search (WDS) is optimized with features that help the enterprise IT manager easily customize, deploy and manage the installation of desktop search across all users and computers in their organization
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34 month ago
kayodeok : MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search Developer Guide - Windows Desktop Search can be extended to index the contents of new file types and data sources. The user interface can be extended by associating icons and context-menu handlers with those items
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Search Engine Ranking Factors - This article contains a large list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase
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36 month ago
plasticbag : meebo.com - bloody astonishing multi-platform IM client in your browser - Doesn't seem to work so well on Safari - or at least not with the amount of tabs I have open normally, but still.
deusx : meebo.com - Really nifty browser-based IM client.
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Searching for Standards - It’s interesting to note that only one engine is using valid markup and CSS layouts, and that would be MSN
Douglas Bowman : Searching for Standards - Molly Holzschlag does a quick survey of various popular search engines and reports back basic use of web standards. MSN leads the pack.
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37 month ago
kayodeok : MSN Searches RSS Deeper - The new MSN Search engine is now capable of searching in full within RSS and Atom feeds
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37 month ago
kayodeok : MSN Search Gains New Feed Searching Commands - Search Engine Watch's review of the new MSN Feed Search commands
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37 month ago
kayodeok : New Microsoft Phishing Filter and Games Add-Ins Provide More Tools for MSN Search Toolbar - First phishing filter for any Web search toolbar and easy access to MSN Games offer great options for MSN Search Toolbar users
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37 month ago
Andy Baio : Credible rumors on the IM war - Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL may be conspiring against Google Talk in the IM space [via]
plasticbag : "1,2,3,4, I Declare IM War" - an interesting theory about MSN, AIM and Yahoo conspiring to keep Google out of the multi-platform IM game... - If it's true, it seems to me it'll have the opposite effect - as a real boom happens with Jabber clients that are interoperable instead led by Google. This could be about the platformising of the IM space for other people to build upon...
gleuschk : 1,2,3,4 -- I Declare IM War - what AOL, MSN, and Y! think about Google Talk
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38 month ago
kayodeok : MSN Filter: Find and Share the Web as it happens - MSN Filter is your one-stop shop for the inside scoop on what's happening across the Web, according to the people who know the most ... YOU!
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Jon Udell: MSN Virtual Earth, Google Maps, and AJAX deep linking - "Neither Google Maps nor MSN Virtual Earth records the state of a particular map view on the browser's URL-line"
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Via Virtual Earth - Here you will find everything you need to get started creating applications that use Microsoft’s Virtual Earth
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38 month ago
kayodeok : MSN Virtual Earth Gives People an Immersive Way to Search, Discover and Explore Their World Online - Microsoft Location Finder enables Wi-Fi-enabled computer users to determine their location and quickly access local knowledge and information via MSN Virtual Earth
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : MSN Virtual Earth - Microsoft's answer to Google Maps; also: Google adds a hybrid map view [via]
kayodeok : MSN Virtual Earth - Virtual Earth combines mapping and local search to put the answers to your search questions in a geographical context
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Cartoon: Horsey on MSN China - P-I editorial cartoonist David Horsey weighs in today on the issue of U.S. Internet companies, most recently Microsoft's MSN site, cooperating with Chinese government censorship:
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40 month ago
kayodeok : MSN Brings Tabbed Browsing Early to IE - Microsoft has rolled out an updated version of its MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, complete with tabbed browsing, designed to add another level of simplification while browsing the Web via Internet Explorer
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Delivers New Tools to Help Reduce Spam - Launch of new MSN Postmaster Web site and enhancements to e-mail authentication aim to help customers and service providers better understand e-mail delivery to MSN Hotmail
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40 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth - MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth: fantastic! competition
kayodeok : MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth - Microsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Delivers Powerful Upgrade to Desktop Search Capability for Windows Customers - "Searching just got smarter with launch of MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search"
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