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Election News Comes To Media Center

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Oct 2nd @ 1:59 PM
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A recent post on the Windows Vista Blog provides info on a great new resource for Media Center PC users just in time for the vice-presidential debates tonight: Election News! Under the TV + Movies section in Media Center, you’ll now see a new title called MSNBC News Beta. This title will be available to Vista Home Premium and Ultimate users in the U.S. and Canada.

Here, you’ll find a selection of MSNBC’s top stories and weather listings, including Editor’s Picks and Most Popular videos. Under the Politics section, there’s a category for “Decision ‘08” where videos pertaining to the current U.S. Presidential elections will be displayed.  As you browse through the videos, you may notice a plus sign “+” appears when you click on a video. Using this plus sign, you can create your own custom news video playlist which you can play back any time you want. There’s nothing to download to start using this new feature so you can simply begin using it the next time you run Media Center.

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Tags: news, politics, Vista Media Center, Windows Media Center

Reuters AlertNet Makes Featured Mashup List

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Sep 29th @ 9:36 AM
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Reuters AlertNet is a web-based humanitarian news network launched by Reuters in ‘97 to keep relief professionals, journalists, and the public current on humanitarian crises worldwide. The site was recently selected as a featured mashup by the Windows Live Dev team, who picked out 10 of the most innovative mashups that feature the use of Windows Live technology. AlertNet was my personal favorite as it incorporates Virtual Earth in a really unique way. On the site, you can visually “mine” for headlines from a particular part of the world on their interactive map just by zooming into a country or region. You can select what kind of crises you want the map to display from conflicts to food shortages to natural disasters and more, or you can choose all the categories to see everything. This is really an ingenious use of the Virtual Earth mapping technology and one that serves such a good purpose, too. Before the Windows Dev article, I was not even aware of the map existence, but I’m glad to have found it as this could prove to be an invaluable resource for learning about what’s happening in different parts of the world.
Tags: news, news search, Virtual Earth, Windows Live, Windows Live Maps

Zine - Your Online Magazine on Facebook

Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 20th @ 10:03 AM
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A new Facebook application called Zine is an online magazine of articles and videos that you can add to your Facebook profile.  You can completely customize the magazine so you only see the topics that are interesting to you, whether that's News, Sports, Entertainment, Lifestyle, or anything. Each main category is further divided into sub-categories for you to further customize your Zine. For example, you can choose to see just NFL news from the Sports category or just U.S. News and Politics from the News category, and so on. Your Zine is then loaded up for you, with each main category available as a tab at the top which you can click on to easily move through the content...[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: app, entertainment, FaceBook, facebook app, magazine, news

Search Share for Facebook

Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 19th @ 9:36 AM
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A Live Search powered Facebook app called Search Share lets you search for all kinds of information that you can then share with your Facebook friends. Results for Search Share can include videos, images, web pages, news, and more. But Search Share isn't just a way to see traditional search engine results within Facebook, you can also preview the content and select the results you want via drag-and-drop in order to share them with your friends...[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: FaceBook, facebook apps, friends, Live Search, news, pictures, search, video

MSN Environment Launched

Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 9th @ 1:59 PM
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For eco-warriors and environmentalists, there's a new channel on MSN that will be of interest: MSN Environment. On this site, you can read news and blogs, watch videos, get eco-friendly tips, plus get access to tools like a carbon calculator and a water usage meter. The site is only on MSN UK (for the U.S., we have MSN Green instead), but there are certainly features on the site that will appeal to everyone interested in these issues...[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: blogs, Green, MSN, MSN Environment, news, tips, UK

News Search Adds RSS

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 28th @ 10:43 AM
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Here's some great news from the Windows Live Search team: Earlier this month, we told you when the new web service News Search was launched. The site, which offers many great features like local news and top videos was only missing one thing as far as its users were concerned: RSS feeds. Well, no more! A blog posting on the Live Search blog states, "you wanted it, and now you have it." That's right, RSS feed are now available in News Search for all the categories or for the specific searches you perform. Thanks guys!
Tags: news, news search, RSS, search, Windows Live Search

MSN's A-List

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 25th @ 1:50 PM
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There's a new MSN page available at http://a-list.msn.com where you can find the most popular searches and headlines on MSN. The page features one hot topic per day and related searches at the top and below, are other popular searches and headlines, including the top web searches, the top people searches, the top videos, the top MSN.com headlines, the top movies and DVD rentals, the top five in Sports, the top Deals, the top health stories, the top tech stories, and more. What a nice way to get access to all the top news from one convenient page! Pretty cool! (found via SEO and Tech Daily)
Tags: MSN, news

Live Search News Launches

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 16th @ 3:30 PM
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The Live Search team has just launched a new feature for finding news on the web: Live Search News. Here, you can find the latest news stories, categorized as "Top Stories," "World," "U.S.," "Local," "Business," "Politics," "Entertainment," "Sports," "Sci/Tech," and "Health."

The site has several really great features, one of which is the local news sidebar. Although you can access local news by clicking on the category page, having the sidebar there makes keeping tabs on your state's news even easier - especially when you just want a quick glance at the top stories...

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Tags: Live Search, live search news, news

MSNBC launches “Multimedia On Mobile”

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Mar 27th, 2007 @ 12:10 AM
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MSNBC announced that it will be offering consumers a rich news and entertainment experience for Windows Mobile devices called "Multimedia on Mobile". You will be able to find and save your favorite pictures, stories, and videos - including video from NBC News and The Today Show. Slideshows will be available with content being shared easily via SMS messaging and email. How much will this service cost? It’s free, launching with Windows Mobile being the sole sponsor. The service supports 15 Windows Mobile devices right now with more to follow.
Tags: MSNBC, news, windows mobile

Xbox Update with Tony Hynes!

Posted By: Tina Wood | Feb 19th, 2007 @ 5:39 PM
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Okay party people!  I'm hoping to sit down with the Xbox peeps to bring you what we can expect from the Xbox 360 department each week.  Tony Hynes and his crew will be bringing us the updates.  Check out this week's Xbox 360 news.   
Tags: gaming, news, Seattle, xbox 360
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