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And Now, Windows Live Is a Social Network
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... (NSDQ: MSFT) has launched a new version of its Windows Live service, whatever it was before (search plus its myriad communication services tacked on it), and now it is a full blown social network, with the idea to integrate all the disparate MSFT online services, as well as allow other third-party services to be embedded within in. Also, it has the now de rigueur news feed, a la Facebook, which lets you track your friends and their activities. Apparently people who have reviewed it like it. More details in the release. ...
Live.com: All Change
Geek In Disguise —
Lots of changes coming at Live.com as it looks more and more like a full blown social network. Coverage at Techmeme and Techcrunch already. The best way to understand what’s coming though is to watch the cool video the team did with Lee and the gang at CommonCraft. If you want lots of details, check out the Reviewers Guide
Coming Soon: Updated Windows Live Online Services
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... consumers the added convenience of having a central place to organize
and manage information.
It's really exciting to know that hundreds of millions of people will soon be able
to take advantage of what we've been thinking about and working on over the past year.
I plan to hold my tongue until everyone can play with the new version themselves.
For now I'll leave some links and screenshots from various blogs showing our baby
off.
From TechCrunch: Sweeping
Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!
From Windows Live ...
Could a Social Twist Brings Good Tidings to Microsoft’s Live Service?
Search Engine Journal —
... Microsoft is rolling out some new features of its Windows Live Service that can simply be put as taking the social route. Actually it will be a whole suite of applications which Microsoft is infusing to Live.com portal. That’s right, a pseudo social network that would pull users’ online contents and various services from across the web. Aside from this, Microsoft will also be rolling out some new and old features which as Arrington said are previously being touted by Yahoo with its email service for over a year now. All these socially-relevant applications are aimed ...
p2pnet headline roundup: Nov 13, 2008
p2pnet news —
Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network! - TechCrunch
Microsoft’s Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted on. It’s now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from around the web. They’re also launching Windows Live Photos and Windows Live People, and other services. Check it out at Home.Live.com. A lot of what they’ve done is exactly what Yahoo has been talking about for over a year now - ...
Live.com Goes Social
SocialTimes.com —
... This morning the big news is that Live.com, Microsoft’s primary portal which was originally just a search engine has gone social, providing users with profiles and activity feeds of their friends’ latest activities. As Mike Arrington writes, “Users are automatically connected with any friends they have on Windows Live Messenger, which is by far the most popular instant messaging service worldwide.” ...
Live.com goes social
Gadgetell —
... facebook user - great, keep using facebook. ditto myspace, bebo, skyrock, daum, QQ, linkedin, … there are lots of social networks out there doing a very good job.” Yet, noticeably missing from the 50 partner sites are Facebook and MySpace. Guess Live doesn’t want to share the ball in the playground all that much.
What do you think? Is it enough to make you want to join their club? Or do you not feel the need to go Live?
via [techcrunch]
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Microsoft Polishes Its Social Skills
Internet Evolution: —
... already seen recreated a thousand times in the past year alone. Sorry. I'm trying this new thing, you see, called being facetious. Because the news that Microsoft will be "rolling out" a new social networking platform over the course of the next few months is, at best, dull. First, a little about the product. Windows Live Wave 3 (hate it already in name alone, yes?) is Microsoft's way of making its Windows Live platform consumer friendly and, of course, "social." The service is being hailed today for its possible eventual ability to let users keep track of their content ...
Microsoft Jumps on the Social Bandwagon
Contentinople: —
... already seen recreated a thousand times in the past year alone. Sorry. I'm trying this new thing, you see, called being facetious. Because the news that Microsoft will be "rolling out" a new social networking platform over the course of the next few months is, at best, dull. First, a little about the product. Windows Live Wave 3 (hate it already in name alone, yes?) is Microsoft's way of making its Windows Live platform consumer friendly and, of course, "social." The service is being hailed today for its possible eventual ability to let users keep track of their content ...
