My.live.com blog: July, 2006

July 10

Add to Live.com button now available

Quite a few of you have asked for a way to let users easily add feeds from your blog or site to their Live.com homepage. So we’re happy to release today an “Add to Live” button! With just one click, users can now add RSS feeds or Gadgets from participating sites to their Live.com homepage.

To implement the “Add to Live” button on your site, simply add this code and image to the appropriate page(s) on your site:

<a href="http://www.live.com/?add=http://sampleurl.com/"><img src="wl.gif" border="0"/></a>

When you insert this code:

1) Replace sampleurl.com with the Web address of your RSS feed, including any subdirectories.
2) Copy the wl.gif image (just right click the one below and save it to your local machine) to the same directory as the page containing the link or put the full path to its location in the <img src> string.

Let us know if you have any feedback!

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July 07

search/personalized toggle

Ever since we released live.com on 11/1, we've released a lot of feedback from our users wanting a simpler, cleaner, faster search experience.

We made a lot of improvements in that space with our new first run released on 6/15, we're very happy to announce some further improvements in this space. You can now toggle between a 'search only' and 'personalized home' experience and your last state will be remembered. This replaces our old 'hide' option, with a much improved experience in 'search only' mode that is faster and includes search filters.

enjoy! let us know what you think.

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Now in 34 new markets

The team’s been working hard and we’ve just released in 34 new markets! Our goals were to provide new markets with a first run experience and market-specific feeds and gadgets. With this release live.com is now available in the following markets:

§ China – Simplified Chinese

§ Netherlands – Dutch

§ Belgium – French

§ Belgium – Dutch

§ Brazil – Brazilian Portuguese

§ Denmark – Danish

§ India – English

§ Russia – Russian

§ Sweden – Swedish

§ Taiwan – Traditional Chinese

§ Arabia – English

§ Argentina – Spanish

§ Austria – German

§ Chile – Spanish

§ Finland – Finnish

§ Greece – Greek

§ Hong Kong SAR – Traditional Chinese

§ Hungary – Hungarian

§ Indonesia – English

§ Ireland – English

§ Malaysia – English

§ New Zealand – English

§ Philippines – English

§ Poland – Polish

§ Portugal – Brazilian Portuguese

§ Singapore – English

§ South Africa – English

§ Switzerland – German

§ Switzerland – French

§ Turkey – Turkish

§ Czech Republic – Czech

§ Slovakia – Slovak

§ Slovenia – Slovenian

§ Latin America – Spanish

Let us know what you think!

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