Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:10:09 -0800 From: msnacteaATemail.microsoft Subject: Sign up for the MSN adCenter U.S. Pilot Dear Matthew, We're excited to let you know that you have been chosen to participate in the U.S. pilot of MSN adCenter. Getting started early on MSN adCenter will provide you with many opportunities. You'll learn how to use MSN's unique search data to connect with users through advanced targeting options that will help increase your ROI. To get started and see what adCenter can do

MSN has recently come out with some developer competitions for MSN Messenger and Virtual Earth . Be sure to check out the Virtual Earth Hacks video on Channel9 and Dare's post for any other information . @Matthew

Also yesterday, Microsoft announced that it bought Teleo , a provider of voice over Internet protocol [VoIP] technology. Currently MSN also uses similar VoIP technology in MSN Messenger , but has not yet incorporated into the public switched telephone network [PSTN]. I have been using VoIP PSTN service through Packet8.net and so far have been quite impressed [in the pocket certainly, and call quality as well]. I should also note that Microsoft has used other VoIP technology before deploying it's

Yesterday the butterfly released the Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar Beta as expected . The technology uses the same Microsoft Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 Beta [codename Rincon]. This is one of many cool additions to the MSN Search Toolbar , including an MSN Games and MSN Weather modules, and MSN Screen Saver Beta [although it can be used independently of MSN Search Toolbar now]. I haven’t taken a look at the technology in detail yet, but I wonder how it compares to

I thought I would have to blog about this at the very least - come on, it's Windows. Well kids, it's not going to be Windows 2006 - that would be too 1990s. Windows Codename “ Longhorn ” is now going to be known as Windows Vista , the next version after Windows eXPerience, in case you're confused. The news broke yesterday, but Microsoft hadn't made an announcement until this morning. It's clear to me that Microsoft branding/marketing is no longer happy with being the boring old company

From: Microsoft Passport Network [communications_msnhm_us@information2.msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:34 PM Subject: Important Notice regarding your .NET Passport Security Key SECURITY KEY INFORMATION CHANGE You are receiving this notice because you previously created a security key for your Microsoft .Net Passport account. As part of our security program, we will be deleting that security key and its associated questions and secret answers in about one week from the date of this notice

Some of you may have noticed some new Passport logos last night. Hopefully that means Microsoft Passport Network 3.0 will be launching shortly. Passport will loose the .NET name and focus on being used for mainly Microsoft sites. eBay and others have already removed Passport support from their sites. Although Passport was initially developed as a single sign-in service for the revolutionary web services market, Microsoft soon scaled it back as the Hailstorm initiative failed. Although this doesn

Today MSN Messenger 7.0 was finalized and released to the web [RTW] for public consumption. Jeff Wilkes and others have reported being able to get it from the official site , but I just tried and got 6.2, so try the Neowin download link . Also, MSN Spaces has removed beta from it's name, increased storage from 10 MB to 30, added more themes, announced 4.5M Spaces created, and launched What's Your Story? . However, there will be many more exciting things from the Spaces team later on and eventually

Well yes I am. Sorry for the lack of blogging, but I've been trying to get a feel for what, how and why I want to blog. Luckily .Text provides great statistics and I think I have a sense for what you guys want. The NEW Microsoft Network received the most views and thus I will be creating a Major News feed for all of those who want to know when MSN comes out with something big. I'll be adding some links to different news sources and resources for MSN customers. As this weblog develops, I invite you

From $5 to $1000, EULAs [or end user license agreement] are starting to offer cold hard cash ! Most people dread reading all this legal mumbo-jumbo and simply click yes when installing software. I actually do scan through them if they're not that long or I simply just read the titles of the different paragraphs [unless I'm in a hurry]. Anyway, the $5 refers to a clause in Microsoft's AntiSpyware *cough* AntiAdware */cough* Beta in case Microsoft makes a mistake and the software's definitions start