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Windows Live for Newbie’s 14.
11/8/2009 6:54:31 AM, Technogran
Setting up your Alerts. As soon as you have made some friends on Windows Live and begun to write a blog on your Spaces page, you will no doubt wish that you could be informed every time that someone posts a comment about your blog post, or whenever a ...
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Really specific syndication
11/5/2009 11:34:17 AM, Greg
You may already know a lot about RSS, the technology that empowers consumers to subscribe to a data source (such as a web page) and receive updates via a reader or news aggregator. You may know that it's a great way to follow a popular blog, because those ...
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Greg Edwards says: Let’s boycott products the Spammers are advertising….
11/2/2009 3:05:14 PM, X-Evolutionist
As you all probably know by now, our Windows Live Spaces are being bombarded with Spam advertising in the comments. They post them as fast as we can report them and delete them. See my related post here: Windows Live Spam Central Reporting Service. Greg ...
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Announcing the unofficial Windows Live “Only You Can Fight Spam” poster contest!
11/1/2009 3:36:53 PM, X-Evolutionist
As many of you know, I have been on a crusade all this year against spam advertisements in our Windows Live Space comments. (Please see: “Windows Live Spam Central Reporting Service” is open for business!) My feedback has reached the ears of a Windows ...
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Trackbacks for Dummies – A Step by Step Pictorial guide to adding Trackbacks in Windows Live Spaces Blog entries.
11/1/2009 1:57:53 PM, X-Evolutionist
In this post, I am only going to show how to add trackbacks. Please see these posts by my good buddy Greg for information about what trackbacks are and how to use them: 10/28/2009 To be continued... 1/9/2009 What’s all this, then? In a nutshell, you use ...
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Hold the spam
10/29/2009 9:07:20 AM, Greg
As I've mentioned, I don't get a ton of spam on Windows Live, but it does happen to me every once in a while. One way I personally combat it is to stay on top of my blog, guestbook, and profile note comments. Typically I check my recent comments every few ...
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To be continued...
10/28/2009 7:51:23 AM, Greg
If you're an ardent blogger on Windows Live Spaces, then you've probably stumbled across trackbacks. You may have even used them once or twice to create automatic links from other blog entries that point back to your post. For the uninitiated, I posted a ...
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Windows Live Sync updated
10/23/2009 11:29:06 AM, mynetx
You can use Windows Live Sync to synchronize folders with multiple computers. The Sync team has released an update that fixes a compatibility problem with Windows EasyTransfer (view full announcement). Get the update at ...
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Is Windows Live Writer dead?
10/21/2009 8:00:53 AM, Greg
I certainly don't like the notion of a "dead pool" for Windows Live products and services, but this morning, LiveSide is reporting on the (very thin) rumor from a Microsoft insider that Windows Live Writer may be the next tool slated for the ...
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What happened to my.live.com?
10/21/2009 1:45:31 AM, mynetx
“Windows Live Personalised Experience”—this is what Wikipedia calls my.live.com, the successor of start.com. This service allowed you to put together your own home page with gadgets and other stuff to get you a home on the Web. Much like iGoogle, to be ...