Posted by Dr. Pete We bloggers talk a lot about finding our voice, that mystical quality that is uniquely us and yet somehow resonates with a wider audience. What happens, though, when your blog gets written by a group of authors? How does a company or community blog find its voice and not just devolve into a schizophrenic mess? Id like to tell you that there's some secret recipe, but honestly,

Bing is headed to Chicago to attend Blogher 09 . We are really looking forward to spending time with a dynamic group of more than 1,400 women bloggers from across the country and from every corner of the blogosphere. With all the walking and talking that will be taking place at Blogher, we thought you may need a few minutes to relax and unwind with complementary micro-massages and micro-makeup retouches.

by Vera H-C Chan Spam , the scourge of e-mail, spreading snake-oil promises of no more flabby tummies, instant doctorate degrees, and the power to make sweet love all night. Does anyone really fall for subject come-ons like "super stud de luxe" or "polar bear mauls tourist"? Did you really have to ask? A study of "800 ordinary computer users" extracted some " shocking " admissions: About 52% click on spamâ?"and several would do it again.

Firefox 3.5 has only been around for about a month now, but Mozilla is currently working on version 3.7 What do you think about the new design changes? Tell us . Over on Mozilla's Wiki , some Firefox 3.7 Windows Theme Mockups were recently posted. Mozilla is quick to note that: "These are NOT FINAL! THEY ARE ONLY FOR BRAINSTORMING / EXPLORATION!" Mozilla has even explained some of the new additions coming for version 3.7, which go along with the first screenshot below.

More than two million U.S. households used online banking and bill payment last year, according to a survey sponsored by Fiserv and conducted by Harris Interactive. A total of 69.7 million households with Internet access now use online banking services to access balance, account history and to transfer money between accounts. In addition, 64.4 million households pay at least one bill online at a bank website or at a company website.

Fans of Bing find it easy to say and often speak the name like a sound effect, especially when you find what youre looking for online. Bing! Since everyone is having fun with the name, we thought it would be interesting to see what you can do with it, put to a little music! Got a fun jingle, or as we like to say in the halls around here Bingle you want to share? Warm up those vocal cords, bust out your flip,

A high court judge in London has just ruled in favor of Google over a landmark case that could perhaps set the precedent for future cases that might be thrown against not only at Google but other Search Engines as well. In the said ruling, Google was deemed not liable for defamatory comments contained in news articles, blogs and forums that are displayed by Google search results.

Part of what makes working at Microsoft fun is the abundance of smartypants people that I get to work with. The downside is that Bing gets a workout as I casually use my PC to look up words as I talk to them. This week at SIGIR (Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval now you know why they abbreviate it) in Boston, our own Microsoft Research group is showing off some future-looking innovations in the search and information retrieval field. In fact,

YouTube now allows uploading of 3D videos, like the one uploaded by BlackShark as pictured above. To trigger the 3D selection menu, you need to use tags like yt3d:enable=true and yt3d:aspect=3:4 , as explained by creator Pete in the support forum . Also, I asked BlackShark what format to upload, and BlackShark explains: You need to upload your left and right views stacked together horizontally in the same video frame.

Google is testing 3D videos on YouTube. An interesting post in the YouTube Help Center was discovered by Search Engine Roundtable's Barry Schwartz, and a Google employee is apparently using his "20% time" to work on the "stereoscopic player". There is even a test video (at least one) that is live: If you go to the video's page on YouTube, you can check out the following menu for 3D View style, which as you can see,