Windows Live Takes a Page From FriendFeed and Face
 

If you have been looking for yet another strategy to aggregate your social activity through the across the web, then you’re in luck. Windows Live, the MobileMe for PCs, is getting into the hyper-aggregation business with a variety of social websites.
Today’s Windows Live announcement means that users will now be able to connect their social network exercise from 20 new partners including Facebook, Digg, and SmugMug. The end result is a Windows Live, “What’s New” exercise feed filled with information about what your friends are doing from across the world wide web.
In total, Microsoft’s social aggregation offering now includes 30 sites and services for pulling and pushing content. The list includes a myriad of hot social sites and blog platforms like Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, TypePad,microsoft office professional plus 2010 key, Photobucket, Digg, and SmugMug. Plus, three of the new supported services — MySpace, hi5, Tagged — allow users to connect their contact lists between those sites and Windows Live.
Adding new services can be accomplished by visiting your profile page,Windows 7 Home Premium, selecting the appropriate services,Windows 7 Ultimate, and adding respective site credentials. You can also add all the activities you’d like to share, and specify with whom. Privacy options are based on activity, and allow for items to be shared with everyone, shared with your network,PC 104 Peripheral Boards, or shared with select individuals. Because new exercise appears across Windows Live products (like Hotmail), you’ll want to carefully select which audiences can see which activities.
Even though Windows is obviously emulating aggregation services like FriendFeed, and even Facebook’s real-time news feed, the end result is a big win for Windows Live users who are actively using the service’s other products,Cheap Office Standard 2007, which include Hotmail, Messenger, and People (contacts). Aggregation with real network context is starting to be a popular trend,Office Ultimate 2007, and this move definitely brings activity aggregation to a wider audience.