Microsoft or Google? Which one is more popular on social sites?

The free, small, online application, presented by SocialScan, might be useful to the bloggers in many occasions. It is fast and does not require registration or code installation on your site or blog. Therefore, you can check not only sites you own, but any other sites on the Web. Knowing popularity of your own sites will help to review and assess the site promotion strategy. Knowing popularity of your competitors will give you one more hint, who you against to is. Just enter the URL, click on submit, and you get immediately results, covering 10 most popular social sites.

To show, how this application works, I made a simple comparison of the popularity between Microsoft and Google.

Microsoft vs. Google

Services are available from the Website: http://www.socialscan.com/

Windows Live Writer from Microsoft for Blog Desktop Publishing

By many bloggers, Windows Live Writer (WLW) is regarded as the best free blogging software on the market. It is a Microsoft product and is strongly supported and maintained by the software giant.
WLW has lots of features that put it aside among desktop freeware blogging applications. Among the main application features are:

• Supports multiple blog platforms, including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Wordpress, Blogger and many others.
• Ability to compel your blog with easy. You can insert photos and videos, maps, tags and lots of other cool content, all in no time.
• Powerful editing features include tables, spell checker, and quick hyperlinks.
• You can preview your publication before you post. Since the software enables true WYSIWYG blog authoring, it will show you exactly what your blog entry will look like before you post it, using your blog’s templates and formatting.
• You can compose your entries while being offline, and later publish them, when you get back online.
• Windows Live Writer is currently available in 6 different languages.

Developer’s Home Page: http://get.live.com/writer/overview
Direct Link for downloading: http://www.ziddu.com/download/1860119/WWL0057.exe.html

WLW Screen