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Windows Live Adds More Social Network Partners; The First Time Facebook Feeds Can Be Pulled into a Third Party Service

| Date: April 21, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: digg, facebook, last.fm, microsoft, social media, typepad, windows live, wordpress, yandex

TechCrunch revealed that today Microsoft will announce a number of new data partners, including Facebook, Digg, Last.fm, SmugMug, TypePad and Yandex. This is, apparently, the first time Facebook feeds can be pulled into a third party service.

Also, Microsoft has made some headway on their Contact Interchange product that pulls in friend data from various social networks (we questioned whether it violated the Facebook terms of use last year). Today Microsoft will announce the addition of MySpace, Hi5 and Tagged to the product, joining Facebook and LinkedIn. This is a two way relationship that allows users to pull their Windows Live contacts into those services as well.



The full list of new partners:

MSN: Microsoft Network
Arto (Freeway): Denmark
Bilddagboken.se: Sweden
Dada: Italy
Dailymotion: France
Digg: USA
FaceBook: USA
Fotolog: France
Hevre: Italy
Hyves: Netherlands
Last.fm: UK
Live Journal: Russia
MClub (GMedia): China
Metroflog: Argentina
Overblog: France
SmugMug: USA
TypePad (SixApart): USA
Yandex: Russia
zoo.gr: Greece

Current Partners:

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Windows Live Hotmail Web Messenger Launched

| Date: April 21, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: web app, web messenger, windows, windows live

photobucketWindows Live team has announced the availability of Web Messenger for Windows Live Hotmail. With this feature you can chat with your friends in Live messenger without having to install it in the desktop. You will be able to send instant messages from the Windows Live Hotmail and People pages. So if you are using computer from friends place or a public computer, you can still chat with Hotmail contacts.

Here’s what you get with the new web Messenger:

  • You can sign in to and send instant messages from any computer connected to the Internet, even if it doesn’t have Windows Live Messenger installed.
  • You can also send IMs to your Messenger contacts from the People page (your contact list). Just click the contact’s picture, and you’ll see Send an instant message on the dropdown menu.
  • photobucketIn Hotmail, if one of your Messenger contacts sends you e-mail, you’ll see their Messenger availability indicated in green, yellow, or red right by their name. If it’s green, click it and instantly start chatting
  • If you have more than one Windows Live ID, you can sign in to web Messenger and regular Messenger at the same time, with different IDs.
  • Don’t worry, people can only see your availability if you’ve agreed to be their Messenger contacts. You can sign in and use Hotmail or any other Windows Live service without signing in to web Messenger, so nobody can start chatting with you until you decide to let them know you’re available.



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