Live Favorites V1 is Released!

Expanded Market Support

Live Favorites Bookmarklet

You've asked for it!  We've now made available a bookmarklet so you can easily add websites to your Live Favorites account. Click here to get the bookmarklet now!

Live Favorites Messenger Tab New Features

We've got some great new features in our Messenger Tab:

• Folder Support - See all of your favorites in folders!  Click on the small Folder icon to switch between Top Favorites and Folder Views.
• Favorite Count - See exactly how many favorites you have stored.
• Add Favorites - You can now add favorites directly from Messenger. Click the down arrow next to "Manage" to manage your favorites, add a favorite, or refresh Messenger's list of favorites

The Messenger tab makes it very easy to access your Favorites directly from your desktop; Just look for the Messenger tab with the Favorites Star on it.  You can move it higher in the Tab list too - go to the Tools Menu, select options, and then the Tabs item.  From there you can move it on up!

Live Favorites Web Site Enhancements

Of course, your main place to access and manage your favorites is still our website at http://favorites.live.com.  We've added a lot of enhancements for this release, check 'em out:

• Speed!  - We've done a lot of work to greatly reduce rendering time on our site.
• Browser Support -  Live Favorites fully supports IE6, IE7 and Firefox.
• Multi-Select - You asked for it! Select multiple favorites and delete or move them with a single click.  Simply hold down the Ctrl key and click on multiple items to select them.
• Favorites Status - We now tell you exactly how many folders and favorites you have
• Easier Sharing - Share your favorites with a single click!  In the details view click "Private" on any favorite to share it, and vice versa!
• UI Enhancements - Resize columns!  Sort by any column!   Improved graphics! List View!  Favorites Preview!

The Live Favorites team is very happy to bring this release to you.  We hope you like what you see.  Fear not though, we're not done!  We have some great plans for the future, and always enjoy hearing from you!

Hey Folks!  Like what we're doing here in Live Favorites?  Have a great idea on how to make it even better?  Dislike something in Live Favorite you want to fix?  Well, come help us out!  The Live Favorites team is hiring!  Here's the info:

Qualified applicants should have a solid background in Windows software development, at least five years of industry experience as a software developer shipping products targeted at a large customer base, preferably on large-scale servers, Internet services, or distributed systems.  Requirements include experience in writing highly scalable backend services, proven exceptional strength in the following areas: expert knowledge in asynchronous programming using multiple threads and know how to write high performing code. In addition to that problem solving, written and verbal communications, technical judgment, cross-group collaboration, software debugging, customer focus. Familiarity with technical terms like L1 cache, cache line, cache coherency protocol, branch prediction is a plus. Candidates must have a thorough knowledge of C# or C++. Thinking in Software Design Patterns highly desired.

Our developers work in an agile development, using cutting edge tools and technologies. Backend services will be written in C#.

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent is required.

If you're interested drop us a resume to lfblogfb@microsoft.com and we'll take a look.  Thanks!