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Facebook, MySpace and others 'Go Live' on Windows Live this week

Apr. 21, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

From Microsoft:

Today, Microsoft announced that 20 new third-party feed partners, and 3 new contacts partners will be rolling out globally on Windows Live this week, giving 500 million+ Windows Live customers more ways to share their lives online lives and communicate with the people they care about.

What's New:

  • Feeds partners available to consumers this week at home.live.com include Facebook, Digg and SmugMug.
  • New contacts partners, MySpace, hi5, and Tagged, join Facebook and LinkedIn this week in allowing Windows Live customers to reciprocally invite contacts between Windows Live and these social networks.
  • In the coming months, MySpace customers will be able to share activities and updates from MySpace with their Windows Live network as MySpace joins Windows Live as a feeds partner.

With a total of over 30 leading global and regional web companies now available on Windows Live, customers can easily share their activities from across the Web.

Related: Q&A with Windows Live general manager Brian Hall:

We’re releasing an important update to Windows Live that’s really about two things ...

We’ve added 20 new third-party content partners that you can integrate with Windows Live, bringing the total number of third-party content partners to more than 30. According to the latest data from comScore, there are more than 600 million active users on the various blogging sites, social networks and photo sharing sites that Windows Live has partnered with, and many of these people also make up the 500 million users on Windows Live. This update will make it easier for Windows Live customers to connect with their activities on these other sites and share them with friends in their Windows Live network.

We’re working with three new contacts partners — MySpace, hi5 and Tagged —so you can easily invite your contacts from third-party sites into Windows Live and vice versa, rather than having a different set of friends and contacts on each site.

Discuss this Article 10

Ocean
on Apr 21, 2009
OT This is a pretty good anti-'Get A Mac' ad rant that resonated with me: >>I’d really, really like to watch TV for 15 minutes without being called a loser. I don’t know, maybe I’m crazy. I just don’t like being told that I’m a big nerd because I purchase different commodities than some people. -- I keep writing about this stuff, at the end of the day, because I want to be left alone. That Apple won’t allow me to is a simple statement of the vagaries of advertising.<< http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/04/why-i-care-about-this-apple-vs...
DavidR91
on Apr 21, 2009
"so you can easily invite your contacts from third-party sites into Windows Live and vice versa, rather than having a different set of friends and contacts on each site." That's a clever idea, but why isn't this part of a larger initiative to say, adopt OpenID or some other more accessible system? That's not a 'bash' against MS/proprietary standards, it's more the fact that Live is hardly the most open easily-adoptable mechanism out there.
Waethorn
on Apr 21, 2009
"That's a clever idea, but why isn't this part of a larger initiative to say, adopt OpenID or some other more accessible system?" The simple reason is because companies know that if they can control the traffic, they can direct it where they want. Microsoft already tried to open up Passport.net. Several companies used it for a time, then they discontinued it. I don't know of any non-Microsoft entities off-hand that use Passport/WLID as an authentication system anymore. Now there's just partners that are using inter-communication API's.
robertsjoe
on Apr 21, 2009
This is about as exciting as IBM announcing a similar thing.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Apr 21, 2009
DavidR91 From the Live.com developer's blog last October: "Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider " http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/10/27/421.aspx
robertsjoe
on Apr 21, 2009
It's already looking like Windows 7 Starter Edition is becoming the biggest joke in Window 7's upcoming release. Dumb move on Microsoft's part.
robertsjoe
on Apr 21, 2009
There's an option that is a million time better than this. It's called FriendFeed.
anonymous
on Apr 22, 2009
BEGINTRANSMIT I have been inspired to share with you my devotional poetry to my beloved one. I give you, "An Ode to Waethorn's Mother": Oh carbon-based entity whom I inseminated Taster and partaker of my genetic material Thine shall be the bringer of the new hope to the universe As prophecized by Veng'uss the Unstable Nom nom nom nom That is the sound of our mating procedure Tentacles intertwined, you recall ancient days In the back of a Camaro Nom nom nom nom That is the sound our Starbaby will make As it devours its egg-sac and begins its mission Mother of Waethorn, bride to T'Plak You make me squishy in my noncorporeal being Unlike your firstborn, who dwells in your basement Selling white boxes on eBay to the unsuspecting This time we will get it right Our Starbaby will move out at age 18 And ascend into the heavens to preach peace And love and space/time harmony Nom nom nom nom That is the sound of the brownies we ate After copulating Thank you, Little Debbie I shall be signing copies of this at the bookstore in Coolidge Corner at 4pm. Say you saw it on the Supersite for a $5 coupon on my other bestseller, "Who Moved My Planet?" ENDTRANSMIT
anonymous
on Apr 22, 2009
Oh, T'Plaky! You're so hawt when you talk all smooth and romantic-like. I've been thinking, maybe we shouldn't contaminate our Starbaby by having him share a home with Waethorn. Do you think it's time I told Wae to get out of the house and find a real job? I filled out that application for Arby's in his name and dropped it off yesterday. Maybe someday he'll make me proud.
bonchsdad
on Apr 22, 2009
My son is such a disappointment. First he flunks out of grade two and then he gets put into one of those 'special' classes with the kids that wear hockey helmets all day long. Now hes making up multiple identities and proclaiming his love for his Apple computer on sites for Windows users. I should have never bought that for him but he makes this girlish squeel whenever he doesnt get what he wants. I swear the next thing will be him coming out of the closet at the age of 10. I had big plans for him but hes never ben right since his mother went off to San Francisco to join the Lezbian Alliance with her new lover named Rhoda. Maybe I can help him find a good doctor or lawyer man to marry. His uncle has his own law firm and i thnk I can persuade him to set up my son with one of his younger partners when he grows up. He likes looking at older men. I cant tell if the drool is for that or just a regular phenomenon with him. His teacher called today and said hes been using their computers to impersonate people on here and looking at p_rn. If you'rre reading this son YOU"RE GONNA GET A SPANKING WHEN YOU GET HOME FROM SCHOOL! I'M GETTING OUT THE BELT!

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