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Some Thoughts on Walled Gardens and Social Operating Systems
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... I'd like her to know what I'm doing via the service even though she
isn't a Twitter user. If my friends use Yelp to
recommend restaurants in the area, I'd like to find out about the restaurants even
though I'm not a Yelp user. And so on.
With the latest release of Windows Live, we're working towards bringing this vision
one step closer to reality. You can read more about it in
the official announcement and the accompanying
blog post. I guess the statement "life
without walls" also applies ...
Changes for Windows Live
Angus Logan's Blog —
One of my coworkers (Peer Bentzen) worked on a great video explaining some of the new changes @ Windows Live and now its out in the wild (seen on TechCrunch) I can share it:
Brian Hall gives a deeper overview at Windows Live Wire.
Coming Soon: Updated Windows Live Online Services
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... 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 Wire:Windows
Live – Keeping your life in sync
From Mary Jo Foley on All About ...
Microsoft starts to roll out Live Wave 3; reinvents Facebook
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... For more information, Microsoft product manager Brian Hall has blogged about the service, and his post -- Windows Live – Keeping your life in sync -- includes three videos. There's also a ...
Windows Live gets upgrade, final Essentials release
Betanews —
... , BetaNews November 13, 2008, 11:42 AM Microsoft's Windows Live team today formally announced a number of upgrades to the Live platform that constitute its "next generation," a more unified experience across all the services within Windows Live. Beginning in the coming weeks, existing Windows Live users' home.live.com page will change from the current straightforward (read: Google-ish) list of services to a social, profile-based (read: Facebook-ish) setup where all the existing Windows Live services are tied together with a central update feed. The homepage incorporates a ...
Windows Live joins rising tide of socialism
GMSV —
Now that you’ve spread a wealth of information across myriad Web 2.0 social sites and services, Microsoft figures what you really need is a centralized command and control center, and that’s the vision it’s rolling out today. Under the umbrella of Microsoft Live , Redmond is hoping to leverage the hundreds of millions of Hotmail and Messenger users and attract new converts by providing a home base from which you can manage contacts, share content and pull in updates from an assortment of free-standing social sites. “Our customers have friends across the Web. They communicate ...
Microsoft Polishes Its Social Skills
Internet Evolution: —
... for its possible eventual ability to let users keep track of their content and activity across third-party sites, as well as across Microsoft Live services (Messenger, Hotmail, etc.). Confusing. I thought most of these things already existed via stalking services like FriendFeed and Plaxo, and third-party applications on Facebook and Friends? Well. So what? According to a Microsoft blog , "You can easily pull in your address books from places like Facebook, Hi5, and Bebo, so you don't have to manage multiple networks of friends." Interesting. But perhaps if you're ...
Windows Live Announcements recap: What a week we’re having!
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
This week marked the unveiling of Windows Live Internet Services, news of a refreshed Windows Live Essentials beta coming soon, some new features (and some old ones) from Live Search, and lots of mobile news as well. Let’s recap: Windows Live Internet Services On Wednesday evening, Microsoft unveiled the online portion of Windows Live, which should be rolling out to users in the next “couple of weeks”. Lots and lots of changes and new stuff: Home.Live.com – The starting place for Windows Live online What’s New Feed – A totally new feature, aggregating news ...
New wave of updates for Windows Live web services rolling out
Bink.nu —
As Brian announced a few weeks ago, Windows Live is in the midst of releasing a new wave of updates for the web, for your PC, and for mobile devices. Today we’ve started releasing the first set of updates to our web services, and these will continue to roll out globally over the next 24 hours – including a new version of Windows Live Home , Spaces , Events , and SkyDrive , as well as completely new web services such as Windows Live Groups , Photos , and Profile . New header for Windows Live First, you’ll notice a new common header that will be appearing at the top of all Windows Live web pages. ...
MySpace, Hulu and more on Windows Live this week
SuperSite Blog —
From Microsoft: 23 new third-party feed partners and 4 new contacts partners will be rolling out globally on Windows Live this week, giving 500 million+ Windows Live customers even more ways to share their online lives and communicate with the people they care about. What's New: Feed partners available to consumers this week at http://home.live.com include MySpace, Hulu, Goodreads and a host of regional web companies (full list available here.) New contacts partners, including AOL, Google and Hyves, join Facebook, hi5, LinkedIn and ...
