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More than a pretty face
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Along with the release of our new search experience, we'd like to give some background into the design team and process that went into all the changes you see. You might not immediately think of design as being a critical part of a search product, but we think it is, and we have a growing team of designers, researchers, and developers who believe it, too. We have a growing, pro-design community here at Microsoft as well (only fitting to plug Microsoft Design).
Simple and powerful. Human. Fast. These were our guiding principles for this latest version of Live Search.
Here's the nickel tour:
- Simple and powerful is about getting just enough, having information and tools when you need them, and revealing functionality without being overwhelmed.
- Being human reminds us that all good products speak to people and we should always design for them.
- Being fast has particular relevance to search where so much depends on rolling up the world of information to support people's countless other activities and passions.
We wove these principles into our work on Live Search in a process that started with user research, customer feedback, and a myriad of other sources for data and learning. All disciplines got involved in sketching as a shared way to develop our ideas. With informed iteration, sketches turned into the interactions, layouts, and visual designs that fed directly into user testing, giving us a unique opportunity as designers and researchers to make truly "user-centered" decisions.
Here are some of the biggest changes you'll notice that resulted from our product design process:
Search box near results The new Live Search header and search box is slimmed down from a heavy piece of UI into sleeker, simpler elements. Bringing the search box into alignment with the results and into the body moves it closer to where users are looking and flattens out the visual bumps between it and the results.
Room to breathe on the page Something else you'll see on a large screen (lucky you!) is our centered, fixed-width page, allowing for a more thoughtful, predictable experience as richer search content and wider screens become the norm.
Crisp, clean type We've also made changes to our color and typography. Our decision to use Arial and the new color palette was based not only on our desire to improve readability and consistency, but also on rounds of testing to find the right combination.
Intuitive video search For our new video search experience, the team focused on activities and behaviors that make video search different. We focused on simplicity — cutting irrelevant pixels and text — and power — investing in enhanced preview for video — both of which contribute to the overall simple, yet powerful experience.
Health results integrated from many sources You'll see in health search that we've created a way for users to pull together health information from many different sources, digestible all in one place.
Ultimately, we think we've taken a step forward with this new product that we think will improve the overall Live Search experience. As with any design, it will evolve along with our design team, and we'll tell you more as we go. We welcome hearing your thoughts, too.
Evan Malahy, Designer, Live Search 
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Answering your questions on QnA
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We've introduced our "Renaissance" release of Live Search QnA Beta. Our re-birth signifies the beginning of a new set of features that we'll continue to grow.
We had three goals for this release:
- Focus on the QnA experience for new users.
- Encourage users to discover content and functionality in new ways.
- Highlight and award higher quality content by featuring members who are Top Contributors in given areas of expertise.
Find out more about what we've done at the QnA team blog. And remember to submit your own questions and answers to our Live Search QnA beta.
Heather Friedland, Lead Program Manager, Live Search QnA 
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xRank™ Musician — better than top 40 night at the disco
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Just when you thought we'd stop at Celebrities, we now bring you (drum roll, please) Musicians!
xRankTM provides much more than just a way to track search trends — it's much more than that — it's a social commentary. With xRankTM Musicians we bring you the "mob's view" on what's shaking up the music industry.
Sure, you've got Top 40s, billboard charts, and album sales, but what's more socially relevant than what you and your peers are searching for? Ever heard of Jay-Z, the rapper? If you have, then on the scale ranging from "I live in a bubble" to "I'm in the know" you're in good shape. If you haven't, you may want to brush up on your pop culture prowess. No worries — xRankTM is here to help.
Our boy Jay-Z got married to Beyoncé recently. His search popularity soared and xRankTM caught it — can't say the same for your local station's top 40 list.
Here are some other events that illustrate the "xRankTM effect":
- Unfortunate deaths — Charlton Heston passes away, RIP
- Pregnancy rumors — Jessica Alba unveils her baby bump
- And when they are no longer rumors — Jennifer Lopez unveils the twins
- Sex tape scandals — Kim Kardashian (promoters and publicists are really milking this phenom, post-Paris)
The list goes on.
By now, you're probably bookmarking xRankTM and making it a part of your daily coffee routine. But for those of you who are unaffected by celebs and musicians and pop culture in general, we'll have some more people xRankTM features that I am really excited about. Stay tuned!
Andy Lam, Program Manager, Live Search 
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New Product Search gives you more options
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With the recent update of the Product Search experience (http://search.live.com/products/), users can both research and find deals on products within Live Search. We've incorporated feedback from our users during the beta cycle and revamped the user experience, so now users can search and refine products by user opinions, brand, category, and price ranges. In addition, users can sort results by best user, expert rating, and price. Try it out, and send us your feedback!
Here are highlights of our product search experience:
- One stop to research product details and find good prices You see an image and description for each product, reviews from other users, prices to help you find good deals, and spec sheets for many products.
- Feature-based refinements See which products are reviewed positively or negatively for the features that interest you. View product features such as screen size, battery life, ease of use, and portability.
- Sorting Sort product results by user ratings, expert ratings, and price.
- Filtering Filter product results by specific brands, categories, and price ranges.
- Richer product details Read expert reviews and a spec sheet describing the product.
In the example below, you can view both positive and negative feedback on the Garmin Nuvi 360 GPS receiver. You can click Ease of Use above the green bar to read actual user comments specifically about Ease of Use. This makes it really easy to parse long user reviews to find exactly what you're looking for. Learn more about summarizing user reviews in our previous post here.
Instant answers In addition to the Product Search update, we've improved Product instant answers in web search for broader product queries like GPS, digital cameras, plasma tv, where your intent is research. The instant answer provides guides (we now have a larger selection) and user and expert reviews.
Try different product searches in web search and give us your feedback by clicking Is this Useful?
Note This is a U.S. release only. We haven't yet released these features internationally.
More to come We're excited to bring you these new Product search features, and we have a lot more planned in the coming months. In the meantime, try out a few searches like gps systems, mp3 players, and cell phones, and let us know what you think by using the Feedback link!
The Live Product Search team 
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Shop and search on the go
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We've just released the latest updates to our browser-based mobile search at m.live.com. One of our major efforts was to bring the power of product search to the convenience of a mobile phone. Think about how much time people spend shopping in brick-and-mortar stores — without the ability to do the product research they're accustomed to from their PCs.
We took the great product search features from Live Search and made them easy to use on your mobile phone.
You'll see a list of popular products, user ratings, and price comparisons from online stores.
You can also research products by reading a detailed overview or consumer reviews.
We even include feature ratings that are created by extracting the key elements of user reviews from across the Web.
Now the next time a consumer electronics device catches your eye in a store, you'll be able to get the detailed rundown on its performance, read the consensus wisdom of the Web, compare it with similar products, and even make sure it's being offered for a good price — all before you make that impulse buy. Now you can spend wisely, wherever you are.
Another of our favorite features this release was developed specifically for our friends abroad — those in the United Kingdom and Japan. Searching for nearby businesses is one of the most popular and most valued types of mobile search today. But most existing browser-based search services require the user to first type in their location — easy if you're always in the same place, but a chore when you're out and about, and a real challenge if you don't know exactly where you are.
With this new feature, users can simply click Find my Location, and their location will be set based on their proximity to cellular towers. Then they can get the most relevant nearby results for all their searches.
Let us know what you think! You can send feedback to lsmbfeed@microsoft.com.
The Live Search Mobile team 
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News Search – now with RSS
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You wanted it, and now you have it. We've incorporated RSS feeds into the browse and search results experience. Subscribe and stay up to date with stories from all categories or for specific searches that you perform. We appreciate all the feedback that you've given us. We take it all seriously and do our best to respond.
Try us out (http://news.live.com/), and keep the feedback coming!
The News Search team 
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xRank™ Celebrity — check out who’s hot and who’s not!
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Those of you who search for stuff related to celebrities in your spare time raise your hands.
C'mon now, don't be sheepish about it — we know the numbers, and we know you do it because we do it, too. Here's a thought. What if we could rank who you and all other Live Searchers like to search for?
And then there was born a child unlike its siblings, a Live Search feature whose sole purpose was to be — gasp — FUN?! Check it out here.
Here are a few of the key things I want to point out:
- The xRankTM list that is based on search volume. Honest, we're not making this up... I don't even like Lil Wayne that much.
- A list for what we call "Top Movers" — celebs that are making strides up the ranks.
- Recent news articles on buzz-worthy celebs.
- A historical xRankTM graph that tracks popularity over time (my personal fave).
- Links to Images, Video, Biography, plus Albums and Movies.
- Related Celebrity thumbnails that link to other xRankTM pages.
Everyone's xRankTM is updated several times a day to make sure we're up to speed. Check in often!
This is still in beta, with more improvements to come. What we have now serves its purpose, but we're all about "souping" this baby up with more features. Let us know what you think we can do to improve, especially if there is someone you think we missed.
Try it out now and lose yourself for a while.
Andy Lam, Program Manager, Live Search 
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Going deep: diving into the site you want
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When we were thinking about what searches we could improve on for this release, one thing we realized was that we actually were already getting a lot of searches right. A bunch of these were searches about a particular website you wanted. We returned the website, and you went there. Good times.
But you didn't stay there. We did some research, and it turns out that after you made it to that page, you often tended to go to a few predictable places afterwards. When you searched for CBS you weren't just hanging out on the homepage, you were going off to check out the page for the Late Show with David Letterman. When you searched for King County you were often going to eventually make your way to their Trip Planner.
Since we knew that there was a lot of extra navigation going on, we figured that we should save you the extra clicks. So we did.
Enjoy!
Kemp Peterson, Program Manager, Live Search 
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We’ve revamped News Search!
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With the launch of the new browse experience for News (http://news.live.com/), we now bring you the most relevant stories of the day bucketed in categories, such as top stories, local news, and business. At the same time, the news team has revamped the news results page to incorporate many new features to improve your search experience. Add us to your homepage, try it out, and give us your feedback!
To highlight some of the features of our browse experience:
- Aggregated news We now pull in up-to-date news headlines for users to browse, which include top stories and category-specific articles. Breaking news is clearly identified and up to the minute when it happens, so you're always at the forefront of developing stories.
- Local news Right off the bat we introduce news from your (U.S.) state.
- Multimedia We incorporate a bevy of multimedia content into our pages, including images and videos with smart-motion thumbnails. Read the headlines, and watch videos all on one page!
We're trying hard to make our browse page a one-stop shop for local, national, and international news, combined with rich multimedia content.
If you click "more on this story" or type a search into the search box, you'll notice several new features on the results page:
- Filtering You're now able to filter the results based on your location to get articles from a local perspective, or you can filter by the dominant categories of your search based on the results — so it's easy now to get articles from ESPN or the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for your Seattle Supersonics queries. :-)
- Related searches We offer suggestions on similar topics.
- Sort articles by date
- Videos When they are available you get videos directly in the results. We love videos around here.
Try out a few searches, like Iraq, obama, microsoft, and let us know what you think!
More to come We're excited to jumpstart News with these new features, and we have a lot more planned in the coming months. We'll be pushing out RSS support soon, and for those who've noticed that we don't have blogs in our sources yet, rest assured — we're getting to them. Our goal is to ensure that we have as many sources as possible in our news search, and we'll continue to innovate and experiment to make sure we have the right feature set to enable that. In the meantime, have fun with our new News experience, and send feedback our way!
Update Our official URL is http://news.live.com/, but you'll soon be able to hit our news browse page from the Live Search homepage (http://www.live.com/). To get there, you'll be able to click the News tab or click the News link on any search results page with an empty query. The new features from News are currently only available to the U.S. market, but we're working on extending our coverage internationally. Until then, if you live outside the U.S. you can still check us out by clicking here.
The News Search team 
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Want to know how Live Search is evolving?
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 In upcoming weeks some of us on the Live Search team will write about the changes we've made for this release across the Live Search family — from Web search through News, Video, and Products. As you put Live Search through its paces, let us know how it works for you. We'll do our best to read all your comments and answer the most common questions.
We're building more than a search engine.
The Live Search team 
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New Release of Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth 3D
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Our Maps team released new versions of Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth 3D yesterday. Here are some of the highlights:
- Directions and Traffic enhancements, including 1-Click directions (Party Maps!)
- Improved 3D cities (Las Vegas is shown below)
- Labels in Birds Eye imagery
- Exporting collections to your navigation or GPS device
- Tour enhancements, including HD movies
Many more details are in Steve Lombardi's post over on the Live Maps/Virtual Earth blog -- enjoy! 
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Snow reports for skiers and boarders
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With the winter in full swing, we're excited to announce snow reports for skiers and snowboarders! Search for any ski resort in the United States or Canada to get conditions before you head to the mountain. Links to the resort's site and a link to a map are also shown.
Below is the report for Whistler (a great place in British Columbia):
Of course, we have to be careful about showing conditions only when they're relevant. For example, most people may not think of skiing when they search for blackjack, even though that's the name of a mountain in Michigan. In this case we don't show snow conditions unless you specifically ask for them. Either Blackjack snow report or current conditions at blackjack does the trick.
We also don't show conditions if they haven't been updated by the resort in the past 24 hours.
You can also get conditions in your favorite ski area (try snow at Lake Tahoe) or state. For example, CO snow report shows top resorts in Colorado with new snow and base depth info:
To keep things compact (Web results are important!) the four mountains with the most new snow are shown automatically. If you're interested in one that didn't make the list, a link to the complete snow report is there too.
Check it out - we'd love to hear what you think.
- The Live Search team 
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Tafiti Search Visualization (Silverlight + Live Search API) Source Code available
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The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). It was originally created by Microsoft to demonstrate Silverlight and the Windows Live Search APIs.
Today the Windows Live Platform team announced the release of the Tafiti Search Visualization source code to CodePlex which means any developer can download, modify, and resell the code (see MS-PL License for all the details).
Tafiti has been released as a Windows Live Quick Application via CodePlex, which is a set of demos developers can download and use as reference implementations or starter kits for the Windows Live Platform.
You can see Tafiti running at http://tafiti.mslivelabs.com (or see the original with the Halo3 skin) and to understand how to use it read the walkthrough or watch the video (4.5 minutes).
For more information see the announcement on dev.live.com or on Angus Logan's blog.
Thanks! 
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Webmaster Tools: Open for Business
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This week we're excited to announce that the Live Search Webmaster Center has moved out of its closed beta and we are now open for a public beta. In conjunction with this release we want to announce the creation of the Live Search Webmaster Center blog. In an effort to serve our webmaster community better we will be sharing information on how to improve your crawlablity and visibility.
We want the center and the blog to be a place for two way communication between Live Search and the webmaster community because we understand that SEO's and webmasters need this kind of information and the tools we are building to keep their sites performing well.
In the coming weeks we'll blog in detail about the improvements that we've made. Being a webmaster is what you do best. We want to provide a service that will help make you even better. Enjoy!
- The Live Search Webmaster Center Team 
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Summarizing user reviews for computers and electronics
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Users have told us that product reviews are one of the most important research tools they use when shopping for products. The Internet has lots of reviews, but they're usually spread across many sites, which makes finding and reading all of them time consuming.
Our team saw this as a great opportunity to help. As alluded to in a previous post, we recently launched a new feature that finds, analyzes and summarizes reviews from across the Web in a single place. Our search results for popular computers and electronics now include graphical summaries of reviews from people across the Web. The summaries highlight the most discussed aspects (e.g. size, battery life) of each product and the percentage of positive and negative opinions expressed.
For example, try the query hp printers and click a printer such as the LaserJet 2600n.
You can see a graphical summary of user reviews in the form of green bars on the left and click on the different aspects discussed such as "Price", "Print Quality", or "Speed". Here's a screenshot of positive comments about the printer's speed. From users' comments I can quickly see that a majority of users on many different review sites think that the printer is fast.
However, when I read negative comments I learn that many users complain about the printer speed, especially for its startup speed and black and white prints. It may have been difficult to read every review for the product to find these comments, but the summary automatically lifts out comments about this important aspect of the printer's speed.
See our previous blog post for some other computers and electronics searches to try. Click results with star ratings to see summarizations for products with many reviews.
As you can imagine, summarizing reviews can be tricky. There are some cases where it's easier to classify comments as positive or negative and identify the aspect discussed. For example, the following comments are concise and clearly mention aspects of the product such as "easy to use" or "support."
- "Very easy to use"
- "Cons: HP will not be supporting this per their website."
However, consider the following cases. These comments are trickier and there are an infinite combination of these and other types of issues in natural language.
- "The best budget laser color created by hp" - this comment was correctly associated with other positive opinions about "Price" even though it doesn't contain the word "price." This requires understanding the fact that the word "budget" is synonymous with a good price.
- "I love it, you just have to be careful with it because it's somewhat fragile" - this comment is part positive and part negative requiring careful handling.
- "I ordered the product online and waited anxiously" - this comment says nothing about the quality of the product and needs to be ignored during summarization.
- "The manual duplex is real easy to use" - this comment mentions "manual," which is a word with multiple meanings. One meaning of the word is product documentation, which is a commonly discussed aspect of products. However, this comment is talking about a printing capability called "manual duplex". This type of word ambiguity can cause the comment to be misclassified as discussing product documentation.
Because of these challenges, it took a lot of effort and help from Microsoft researchers to develop this feature for popular computers and electronics. Also, the summarization isn't always perfect and occasionally misclassifies comments so we're working hard to continually improve the accuracy of this technology.
We hope that this feature saves you time and helps you find the most interesting user opinions about a product without requiring multiple searches and scanning through pages of reviews.
Please let us know what you think! 
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Live Labs' Jeff Weir wins South by Southwest Web Award
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Congratulations to our own Jeff Weir for winning the South by Southwest (SXSW) Web
award in the art category. He was recognized for his Viscosity application,
which he describes as a modern art generator. He created it because, as his Web
site explains, “it’s beautiful, relaxing, and turns anyone into an abstract artist”.
Viscosity was one of just five art projects recognized as part of the 11th Annual
Web Awards. A complete list of award finalists is here.
Jeff is just one of the talented and passionate user experience designers who help
shape the vision of Live Labs. If you are as passionate about UX as Jeff, we're looking
for a few great
designers.
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We're Always Hiring!
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Live Labs is always on the lookout for great engineers and researchers who are passionate about the
same things we are. If you can't find the perfect job in our current open positions,
but still still believe this is exactly the place for you, then .
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2008 Live Labs Fellowship Awards
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As we continue to collaborate with the academic community, we are always amazed by
the depth of talent. At this time Microsoft Live Labs, in conjunction with Microsoft
Research, would like to announce the four winners of this year's Live Labs Fellowship
awards.
The 2008 Live Labs Fellows are:
Each fellowship includes a $20,000 stipend, payment of tuition and fees, and conference
travel for two years. In addition, we offer each Fellow a brand new Tablet-PC preloaded
with Microsoft software and the opportunity to be a 12-week, salaried intern.
Congratulations to an outstanding set of graduate students who we feel will reinvent
the Internet as we know it.
If you would like more information about our program, please check out http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/jobs/fellowships/ or
e-mail msfellow@microsoft.com
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Silverlight 2 'Deep Zoom'
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Earlier this week, Microsoft announced new features in Silverlight 2, our cross platform
rich internet application runtime. One of the most
exciting new features is Deep Zoom. This capability allows users to explore
collections of super high resolution imagery, from a 2 or 3 megapixel shot from a
digital camera to gigapixel scans of museum pieces, all without waiting for huge file
downloads. The simple zooming interface allows users to explore entire collections
down to specific details in extreme close-up, all with fantastic performance and smooth
transitions.
Don’t just take our word for it:. Hard Rock Café is using the Deep Zoom technology
to power the site showcasing their huge
collection of memorabilia.
Deep Zoom is based on the same Seadragon technology that you have seen in our demos
and in the Photosynth preview. For the first time, we are enabling individual
developers to harness the 2D capabilities of Seadragon to support smooth zooming interfaces
on super high resolution images and collections. You’ve been asking for the
ability to use Seadragon yourself, now here’s
your chance.
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Listas Updated
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We have added a host of new features and improved designs to Listas today.
A fresh home page design and updated community page make finding relevant information
even easier. New community lists like popular
tags, recently
created lists, and top
users are all now available both in Listas and through RSS. For fellow GTD
fans, there are now task lists. Improvements to printing support, history and
version management, and many other additions and refinements round out the update.
You can check out the newly updated Listas technology preview as always at http://listas.labs.live.com.
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Announcing Volta: Web Development Using Only the Materials in the Room
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 Today,
we are announcing the Volta technology preview,
a developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications using existing and familiar
tools, techniques and patterns. Volta’s declarative tier-splitting enables developers
to postpone architectural decisions about distribution until the last possible responsible
moment. Also, thanks to a shared programming model across multiple-tiers, Volta enables
new end-to-end profiling and testing for higher levels of application performance,
robustness, and reliability. Using the declarative tier-splitting, developers can
refine architectural decisions based on this profiling data. This saves time and costs
associated with manual refactoring. In effect, Volta extends the .NET platform to
further enable the development of software+services applications, using existing and
familiar tools and techniques.
You architect and build your application as a .NET client application, assigning the
portions of the application that run on the server tier and client tier late in the
development process. You can target either web browsers or the CLR as clients and
Volta handles the complexities of tier-splitting. The compiler creates cross-browser
JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and all communication,
serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers
together. In effect, Volta offers a best-effort experience in multiple environments
without requiring tailoring of the application.
Learn more about Volta and download it to try
building applications yourself >
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Live Labs is on the Map
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As part of our ongoing collaborations with product groups around Microsoft, Live Labs
continues to help other teams improve features and add new capabilities to Microsoft's
online services. Recently, with the fall release of Live Search, our work with
the Maps team paid off for users. We worked closely with the team in developing
two key improvements:
Single Box Search
Using Live Labs' entity
extraction technology, a machine learning algorithm for classifying data, the
Local Search team was able to combine the two boxes used for separately entering
a business name and a location into a single search box.
A much anticipated feature, it enables maps.live.com users to enter single queries
without having to negotiate multiple input boxes such as:
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Philadelphia, to just jump to a
map of the city;
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Chowder in Boston, MA,
to search for some comfort food by the bay; or
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Chinese Food to search the
current map area (or our estimate for your location if it is a new session) for
some lo mein.
Bird's Eye in 3D
Both the 3D and Bird's Eye views in maps.live.com provide unique and valuable ways
to look at the world, providing far more detail and more useful information
than straight down aerial views alone can. Until now, you had to switch
back and forth between the 3D client and the Ajax version to see Bird's Eye Imagery.
Now, with a user experience reminiscent of Photosynth, the Virtual Earth
3D experience let's you see bird's eye images right in context, including a preview
of the perspective of surrounding images with that familiar white outline:
Check out the newest version of Live Search Maps for
these and many more great enhancements. This type of ongoing collaboration with groups
around Microsoft is what Live Labs is all about; stay tuned for many more improvements
like this.
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Listas - All your lists in one place
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 At
Live Labs, we are always experimenting with new ideas that we think will be useful.
Today we are releasing our latest technology preview:
Listas is a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites,
and more. It allows you to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for
reading or wiki-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users.
We encourage you to try using it for meeting notes, bookmarks, shopping lists, to
plan a night out, or whatever other creative ways you can think of.
In the Listas Community Section, you will find a number of highlights of the most
popular and random items from around the community of public lists such as the
most used tags, the hottest lists, and prolific contributors. You
can even add others’ lists (or any RSS feed) to your own Listas so you are always
up to date.
You can even create lists from all the things you find on the web, like search results,
wish lists, videos, or all or part of virtually any page with the Listas
Toolbar for Internet Explorer:
So, give Listas a try. And, as always,
let us know what
you think.
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