We are delighted to announce a new update to the Windows Live Expo service which launched today!

The team has spent the past 2 months working on features that were either gathered from end user feedback or were part of our long-term roadmap, so we are excited to share our work with you. As part of this update we wanted to highlight the following new features:

Integrated payment service:  Paypal’s 150 million registered users can now easily reference their account in order to complete secure person-to-person transactions on Windows Live Expo.  Buyers can purchase items from sellers on Expo with a credit card thru Paypal or using their Paypal debit accounts. Additionally, sellers can specify their preferred method of shipping and declare the cost for doing so.

 New high quality job listings: Expo now allows users to search and browse thousands of local and national job listings which are supplied by our partner CareerBuilder.

 Featured ads: The new featured ads area (provided by AdMission) allows you to generate a lot more interest in your listing by offering a fun, rich media experience that highlights your classified listing. The featured ads module will initially appear in the real estate and autos sections (example).

Smarter search results. Didn’t find what you were looking for locally? We’ll now automatically preview a selection of national results in a special module below the search results.

Tighter Live Messenger integration. A new Messenger tab will show you all the things your friends and family are listing - right within the Messenger client!

Apart from the features above, we also focused on performance improvements and increasing our ranking in search engines so that your listings have a better chance of being found on the popular search engines. Anyway, we hope you’ll enjoy the new features and please don’t hesitate to leave us feedback.

Best regards,

Team Expo – http://expo.org