Neighborhood news and video is part of the home page
Cool! Easy access from the homepage to Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live services
One of the options in the settings (top right on page) allows you to change the font size
Other Notes
A Bing search box is at the top of every page.
Other tabs on the home page include:
+ Movies
+ Maps
+ Jobs
+ Popular Searches
+ Shopping
News Content is divided into categories:
News, Entertainment Sports, Money, Lifestyle
Cursor over any of them and you'll see more options (aka things to do)
Selecting "More" offers numerous additional features including video, real estate, and shopping
Access to the "Local Edition" is located above the green bar (right side of page).You'll find news, a clickable map, a local directory, video (if available) and lottery numbers.
The new MSN will roll out globally over the next several months. Interestingly the look of the MSN portal may be slightly different country to country, depending on variables unique to each local market. Microsoft also says that it will bring the new MSN experience to mobile devices as well.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
