A note on comments: Disqus 2012

First of all, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to comment on LiveSide.  We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible ... Read more »

Happy Holidays from LiveSide!

Posting will be light for the next week, as we enjoy the holidays (and the fact that Redmond is a ghost town), work on some new years wishlists, and get ready for what may ... Read more »

Announcing the LiveSide Windows Phone Device Gallery: tables gone wild!

OK, so Damaster is, well, the master of putting cool and useful tables together, most recently with our list of Windows Phone Mango devices.  Today we’re proud to unveil our LiveSide Windows Phone Device ... Read more »

Happy Birthday to us, and welcome

Five years ago, on January 3rd, 2006, our good friend and current Microsoft Windows Live Evangelist Harrison Hoffman published the first of almost three thousand posts to date (this is post #2,892), welcoming you ... Read more »

We can has a Windows Phone 7 App

With Windows Phone 7 numbers going through the roof, and the devices being able to be very easily unlocked, we thought now was the best time ever to jump on the huge bandwagon that ... Read more »

Half a million former Spaces bloggers now on WordPress (plus half a million more)

Microsoft unleashed quite a bombshell last September when it announced that it would be shutting down its blogging platform, Windows Live Spaces, and making a migration to open source WordPress.com available to anyone wanting ... Read more »

LiveSide on WordPress

Boy this is a little nerve-wracking!  This morning we switched our blog over to WordPress, running a self-hosted site on our Windows Server.  We’ve been working behind the scenes for the last few weeks, ... Read more »

WordPress progress: 50,000 (+1, hopefully) converted

This week Joe Wilcox at BetaNews hit Techmeme with news that a mere fraction of the millions of potential Spaces migrations might actually happen, as many Spaces blogs haven’t been kept current, and Microsoft ... Read more »

Congratulations Sunshine and PicturePan2: Windows Live MVPs!

Today is an award day for the Microsoft MVP program, and we’re very proud to announce that our own Sunshine, Cornelia Koopmans, and our good friend PicturePan2, Yan Zhu from LiveSino.net, have been awarded ... Read more »

Spaces goes WordPress (and so do we!)

Big news yesterday as the endgame for Spaces was finally revealed.  The handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time for Spaces, with anything of value (Photos, People, etc.) pulled out of ... Read more »