MSN to Close Adult, Mature Groups
MSN plans to remove mature and adult rated communities from its MSN Groups service in late November. The groups would be moved to a third-party site, WorldGroups, which will handle all adult categorized groups for the service after the transition.
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Google Groups gets an Update
Google Groups is all about helping users connect with people, access information, and communicate effectively over email and on the web. Now there's a new version on the block.
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24.1.2007 MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media Network?
The LiveSide folks are reporting that MSN is looking to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network. We figured the MSN team would have to do some kind of rebranding, given that most of their properties are now operating under the "Live," rather than the MSN banner. LiveSide says the MSNers are looking to expand their franchises to include
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7.2.2006 MSN (may) becomes the MSN Media Network
Several sources have indicated to us that MSN plans to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network, whilst at the same time expanding its range of interactive and content rich services. As well as continuing to deliver content through MSN.com and MSN Music, the MSN Video team is evolving to include Movies and TV. Both these sites have already been revamped at the end of last year and feature show times and reviews as well as the latest entertainment news.
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8.2.2006 MSN UK moves
After ten years at msn.co.uk, MSN has today changed its UK domain name to uk.msn.com, in an effort to make their site more accessible to users and increase loading efficiency. Consumers who use several MSN UK services such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger will benefit from easier transition across services without having to log in every time they move to another area of the site.
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6.12.2005 MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
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8.2.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Showusyourwow.msn.com is live
Microsoft launched a new site Show Us Your Wow moment. This is the next Vista looks like site launched as a promotion of Windows Vista.
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8.1.2007 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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MSN Answers a Million More Questions
The MSN Search group announced on its team blog last week that it has added "about a million" new Instant Answers (also known as "direct answers") to its service. The MSN folks are expanding MSN Instant Answer responses into new area, ranging from sports to weather to government officials.
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23.1.2006 Ex-MSNBC.com Head to Run MSN.com
Microsoft publicly announced Thursday that it had named John Nicol to head its MSN.com division, who pledged to push for increased investment and "and acquisitions if we need it," however he declined to be more specific.
Nicol had previously served as the head of MSNBC.com several years ago.
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12.2.2006 Microsoft to Rebrand Another MSN Property
Windows Live is part new services, part rebranded services. The latest MSN service slated to get the Live treatment is online shopping.
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19.3.2006 Microsoft Enhances MSN Spaces
Microsoft plans to give its MSN Spaces blog publishing and hosting service new social networking features, as well as support for the company's lightweight applications called Gadgets.
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7.6.2006 MSN Music Shutting Down For Zune
Microsoft has announced that its MSN Music service will be discontinued. The announcement comes a few days before the official US launch of Microsoft's Zune player and its associated Zune Marketplace.
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5.11.2006 How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
Until recently, when Microsoft execs have touted online services as key to the future of Microsoft, they've almost always meant Microsoft's "Live" services.
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8.12.2006 Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1
Thanks to hwh1226 for this downloads. Here are some Wonderful Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1.
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1.6.2007 Ballmer Beckons Users To MSN With Prizes
Lure 'em with prizes. It's an age-old marketing method, which is why some CEOs still swear by it. Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft who is said to be renowned for swearing, probably knows this all too well.
In a three-month promotion called "Search and Win", MSN Search has announced it will give away prizes and charitable donations to people who punch in the right keywords to its search bar. More than 1,200 pre-identified monikers have been chosen for February and more will be added for March and April. Choose the right one, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) says, and potential loot includes a Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ) gift certificate, a Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) LCD TV, or for the particularly lucky-cum-benevolent, a $10,000 cash award to a charity of choice.
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16.2.2006 MSN Butterfly to Flutter Its Wings for Charity
MSN is sponsoring "Under the Butterfly," a pilot program geared toward helping boys and girls across America while guiding customers to unique content across MSN channels.
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14.6.2006 MSN Launches Beta of Soapbox Today
MSN today announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN® Video, a user-uploaded video service that aims to rival YouTube.
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20.9.2006 MSN Premium releases 9.5 version, not dead yet
Much to our surprise, MSN released version 9.5 of MSN Explorer/MSN Internet Access to subscribers as an update on Friday. The release appears to fix a number of issues surrounding upgrades to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger.
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21.11.2006 MSN Soapbox reopens with copyright filtering
Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues that have plagued other user-generated video sites such as YouTube.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft launches new-look MSN for mobile phones
Microsoft Corp. launched a redesigned MSN portal optimized for mobile phones on Sunday, stepping up its offering at a time when more powerful devices increase the demand for richer content on handsets.
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18.6.2007 MSN.com Kicks Off Live Earth Promotions
Microsoft’s MSN.com is kicking off its sponsorship of the upcoming Live Earth concert series with a host of promotions, including earth-friendly premiums and sweepstakes.
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29.6.2007 New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly
An MSN Messenger Trojan is growing a botnet by hundreds of infected PCs per hour.
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19.11.2007 MSN Direct to Be Killed Off on January 1, 2012
Microsoft has signed the death sentence of MSN Direct and is informing customers that they will be able to continue using the service for two years and a couple of months before it will be discontinued.
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28.10.2009 Microsoft begins rolling out new MSN Homepage
If you’re familiar with the new homepage that is available in beta, there really isn’t anything to report here. But for those that don’t know anything about the changes Microsoft’s making, now you do.
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9.3.2010 MSN Toolbar Roaming Favorites Beta Update
Hello Beta Team,
Quick note on the status of the Roaming Favorites Beta:
First, thank you for using and testing Roaming Favorites. The Beta Team is aware that at times this new product has been challenging to use . For this reason, we have selected highest level beta participants, the Butterflies, to be the first group to test Roaming Favorites.
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Microsoft backs down on MSN Search remake comment
Microsoft is backing away from a senior executive's comments earlier this week hyping the company's search engine remake.
Neil Holloway, Microsoft's president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said Wednesday that "in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. marketplace than Google" The remarks, made at a conference sponsored by Reuters, stunned the search industry.
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6.3.2006 Seventh Annual MSN Strategic Account Summit
Two-day forum at Microsoft campus focuses on inventive approaches to connecting advertisers and consumers online; featured speakers include Jay-Z, Donny Deutsch and Sir Martin Sorrell.
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3.5.2006MSN to Close Adult, Mature
Groups
BetaNews has learned that MSN
plans to remove mature and
adult rated communities from
its MSN Groups service in late
November. The groups would be
moved to a third-party site,
WorldGroups, who will handle
mature and adult categorized
groups for the service after
the transition...
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22.09.2005ICANN Rejects '.xxx' Domain Again
ICANN rejected a proposal to
create a domain for adult
websites for the third time
Friday, after the plan
received criticism from world
governments, religious groups,
and members of the adult
entertainment industry...
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30.03.2007Create your own group with MSN
Groups
Columnist Joli Ballew
introduces you to MSN Groups
and shows you how to create a
group of your own...
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04.01.2006Create your own group with MSN Groups
Columnist Joli Ballew introduces you to MSN Groups and shows you how to create a group of your own...
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23.02.2010Microsoft to replace MSN Groups with Windows Live Groups
Microsoft has been planning to remove MSN Groups and re brand them with Windows Live since the introduction of Windows Live. Now it seems Windows Live
Groups will launch on November 17th, replacing MSN Groups, set to close on February 21, 2009.
In an email
from a Microsoft Technical Support spokesperson, it is advised that Microsoft will be launching a service named
multiply to migrate MSN Groups to Multiply so that they can be preserved after MSN
Groups is closed in February.
Jonathan Yaniv, a Microsoft Windows Live Butterfly, has been doing some
digging around the Microsoft Windows
Live internal sites. Yaniv has found that you can now apply
new
themes to groups, stop people from
using your Group in
Windows Live Messenger to chat and Microsoft has implemented a
mailing list feature for group emails and an option to ban known spammers.
Below is an example of the new Windows
Live Groups set to launch next month (courtesy of
Jonathan Yaniv).
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16.10.2008Windows Live Wave 3: Groups - More than just a stand-alone service
When people have talked so far about
Windows Live Groups, the premise has been that it will just be an upgrade to the existing MSN Groups, and something to compete
with Facebook. User creates a group, group can then share files, create a blog, interact via online comments etc etc.
However
this is somewhat short-sighted. Windows Live, is after all, about the interacting of service, and from what weve heard Groups is no exception. In
order to fully appreciate where Microsoft is taking its social networking strategy, it helps to look at something that emerged a few years ago, the
leaked MSN Wave 11 mockups. While most of what was shown has since been implemented, there is one critical piece that underpins the social networking
scenario Microsoft envisioned “ Circles.
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02.06.2008Perfect 10 Sues Microsoft for Infringement
Adult site Perfect 10 has sued
Microsoft for copyright
infringement, saying the
company reproduces its images
in MSN Search without
permission and links to sites
that also infringe on its
work...
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09.08.2007MSN Launches Green Channel
Today MSN added a new channel to its online information and entertainment network called MSN Green a one-stop online resource for the latest
environmental news, exploring the issues and taking action. MSN has teamed up with some of the leading media and environmental sources, MSNBC, Hearst
Magazines (The Daily Green), Conservation International, Environmental Defense, Grist.org, TreeHugger.com and StopGlobalWarming.org, to offer the new
channel, located at
http://green.msn.com.
MSN Green will provide consumers
with environmental information, including articles developed by popular online publications and Web sites, along with multimedia, interactive features
and other content compiled from MSN Lifestyle, MSN Money, MSN Autos, MSN Travel, and the networks other information and entertainment channels.
Categories will include the following.....
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30.10.2007MSN Strikes New Entertainment
Deals
Microsoft's MSN division
inked two new content deals on
Wednesday, including an
agreement to rebroadcast the
Bob Marley Festival in Miami
as well as a deal with
Billboard to run a music site
on the MSN Latino service...
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23.02.2006MSN Opens Up adCenter Testing
in US
Microsoft's MSN division is
looking for testers to try out
its new adCenter product in
the United States through a
recently launched pilot
program. Yusuf Mehdi, senior
vice president of MSN, asked
employees last week to invite
businesses who might be
interested in the service...
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12.10.2005Facebook will not entirely ban anti-Holocaust groups
Following site complaints, a Facebook spokesperson barry Schnitt has told CNN that certain groups on the world's largest social networking, do
harbour 'Nazi ideals'. He continues to to state that Facebook finds Holocaust denial 'repulsive' but will not ban these groups,
citing the importance to free speech. He went on to state, "We want Facebook to be a place where people can discuss all kinds of ideas. Facebook
did go on to say that, these specific groups should be banned where the denial of the Holocaust is illegal, nations including Israel, Germany and
France to name but a few. Facebook is indeed a place where hundreds of different groups can discuss different ideologies.
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13.05.2009IMDb Loses Advertisers Over Adult Listings
Barclaycard and The National
Lottery have pulled
advertisements from the
Internet Movie Database
(IMDB), one of the most
comprehensive movie databases
on the web, after their ads
were shown next to adult movie
listings. The move follows
recent similar action on
Facebook, when Vodafone and
several other companies pulled
advertising from the site
after appearing next to
profiles that violated company
policies. Other advertisers on
IMDB such as HP, Motorola, and
Hilton Hotels, all of which
host ads site-wide, seem to
have no problem with the adult
movie listings and have
announced no plans to change
or cease advertising on the
site.
Indeed,
Barclaycard believes it may
have overreacted and could
possibly restore ads to IMDB
soon. " The Internet Movie
Database seeks to list all the
movies which have ever been
made, including adult ones,
but by no stretch of the
imagination could it be
described as a porn
site, " said a Barclaycard
spokesman. " As company
policy, we seek to advertise
only on reputable websites and
temporarily removed our
adverts from this site while
we carried out a full
investigation and spoke to the
website. "
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15.08.2007Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video Betas Launched
The Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video
Betas Launched. Both MSN Video and
Soapbox on MSN Video Beta launched a next generation
version. The old
MSN Video will keep existing next to the new
MSN Video Beta.
Some of the Upgraded Features...
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25.04.2008MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media
Network?
The LiveSide folks are
reporting that MSN is looking
to relaunch itself as the MSN
Media Network.
We figured the MSN team
would have to do some kind of
rebranding, given that most of
their properties are now
operating under the "Live,"
rather than the MSN banner.
LiveSide says
the MSNers are looking to
expand their franchises to
include more movie and TV
content, as well as some kind
of podcasting service.
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08.02.2006MSN Joins Yahoo to Build Book
Search
Microsoft's MSN division is
following in Google's
footsteps with plans to roll
out a book search next year.
But to avoid the same legal
troubles that have plagued its
rival, MSN will adopt an
opt-in policy while focusing
on books in the public domain
and other print material not
under copyrights...
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27.10.2005Microsoft Expands Bureaucracy,
Crowns MSN King
Microsoft's
reorganization means a new
focus in its product lineup
and a broad definition of
organizational
"streamlining."
As part
of Microsoft's reorganization
announcement Tuesday, the
company crowned MSN and
services as the new kings in
its product
lineup.
And,
although the reorganization
was described as a
streamlining, it added another
layer of bureaucracy to a
company already leaking
employees as it creaks under
burgeoning middle management,
according to analysts.
"What Microsoft
has created are three super
groups, a new layer of
organizational bureaucracy,"
said Joe Wilcox, an analyst at
Jupitermedia Corp. "The seven
divisions will stay the same
and retain their own profit
and loss. ??? Still, we now
have three presidents, which
we didn't have before."..
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22.09.2005MSN Admits to Sharing Search
Data
Following news that Google
refused to comply with a
subpoena requiring the company
to turn over search records
from its database, much
speculation swirled about the
response from rivals MSN and
Yahoo. MSN has broken its
silence and now acknowledges
that it did share search data,
but no personal information...
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23.01.2006MSN customised page gets beta update
We havent mentioned MSN for a while, mainly due to all the Microsoft-Yahoo talk thats been going on. However a few days ago the My MSN customised
homepage launched a new beta version, available at
http://next.my.msn.com.
So whats new?
Well the most striking thing youll notice when comparing it to the
old site is that it now
features the new-style header UI. This includes the drop down menu linking users to all the other MSN sites, as well as offering access to the main
Live Search verticals straight from the page.
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04.07.2008Does Live.com Mean the End of
MSN?
One of the most frequently
asked questions following the
Windows Live launch on Tuesday
has been: "What happens to
MSN?" Microsoft executives
were quick to reassure that
the online brand will survive.
But with Messenger, Search,
Mail and more becoming Windows
Live services, what's left
for MSN?..
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02.11.2005Microsoft Shakes Up Windows
Division
Mere days after announcing a
delay in the release of
Windows Vista, Microsoft has
massively reorganized its
Platforms & Services
Division, which will now be
made up of eight groups. The
idea, the company says, is to
better align its Windows and
MSN efforts with its new
"Live strategy."..
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