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Twitter Comes to Bing

Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Qi Lu, President of Microsoft's Online Services Division, announced a new beta feature that enables people to easily search Twitter's real-time information feed directly in Bing. This new feature helps people make better decisions and more fully understand...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-21-2009
Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support

This is big stuff, and if there's anyone actually paying for MobileMe a year from now, well, you already looked like a fool, so what's the difference? The Google Mobile Blog reports today that Google has added push email support to Google Sync, which previously provided that support for Google...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-22-2009
Google Chrome 3.0

Just one year into its life and 2.8 percent market share later, Google Chrome hits the big 3.0... Thanks to a full year of great feedback from our users, we're kicking off our second year of Google Chrome with a brand new stable release . This stable release incorporates many of the improvements...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-15-2009
Going Google: It's not a slam dunk yet, sorry

Google has started up an interesting ad campaign in four major US cities (including Boston) in which it touts the benefits and simplicity of moving to Google Apps. Here's some info about this from the Official Google Blog: Every morning, millions of people wake up to a very refreshing experience...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-05-2009
Microsoft's proposed browser ballot screen

I'm embarrassed to say I missed this last week, but when Microsoft announced its proposal to let EU customers choose a browser via a so-called ballot screen, they also provided an image of what that screen could look like. Here it is. Under our new proposal, among other things, European consumers...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-31-2009
Browser ballot screen isn't just for Windows 7

Mary Jo Foley reports on an interesting tidbit I missed while traipsing around The Netherlands this week: Microsoft's proposal to let EU users choose from competing web browsers isn't relegated to Windows 7. They'll offer this capability on Windows XP and Windows Vista as well. The “ballot...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-28-2009
Microsoft shutting down MSN Soapbox

No big surprise, since I was apparently the only non-Microsoft employee to ever use the service. (Never heard of it? You're not alone. It was Microsoft's "answer" to You Tube.) Here's an email I received this week: MSN will no longer offer Soapbox, the user generated video service...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-22-2009
Firefox 3.5.1

Not a huge deal, but Mozilla has bumped up Firefox 3.5 a bit in the past 24 hours. What’s New in Firefox 3.5.1 Firefox 3.5.1 fixes the following issues: Several security issues . Several stability issues. An issue that was making Firefox take a long time to load on some Windows systems. Please see the...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-17-2009
How to download a web browser in Windows 7 E (which doesn't come with its own browser)

Rafael offers up an interesting step-by-step guide to finding a web browser in the supposedly browser-less Windows 7 E Editions , which will be afflicting folks in Europe in about 3 months: Mom and Dad will likely get a pre-built machine, by either a popular manufacturer or their kids, so this isn’t...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-16-2009
Chrome OS to be free, Google says

The Google Chrome Blog comes to life again with the following tidbits ... Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost. The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build devices that deliver an extraordinary...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-10-2009

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