Home.live.com: Is This The “More”? Web Slice For What’s New With Your Network

Might this be the “more” spoken about here? Picturepan2, spotted something in Angus Logan’s vids that were posted in Rob Dolin’s post:
HomeWebslice
 
A web slice* icon on home.live.com! Now what might that be for? From what we see in a screenshot in Seika’s post, it is for “What’s new with your network.” Very handy indeed, but don’t we already have something like that? Well, yes and no.

If you have the Windows Live Toolbar installed you will see that also has a “What’s New” button:
WLtoolbarWhatsnew 
So no, we don’t have a web slice like that yet, and yes, the ”What’s New” in Windows live Toolbar looks a lot like it. The biggest difference is that by the looks of it the new web slice (might this also be released in the coming week?) will only feature 3 10 updates, whereas the Toolbar one does 5.

*Web slices are a feature of IE8, should you not have IE8 yet please download and install it from the Internet Explorer homepage.

Edit: The web slice just appeared for me on home.live too, and it indeed shows 10 updates. To see all of them, just stretch out the slice as far as you can by holding the bottom right corner with your left mouse button and drag ;)

Comments

  • JohnCz

    You make an excellent point about the redundancy between Live Toolbar and WebSlices. I really hope the Live Toolbar team adds more meat to it in upcoming releases. I’d like to see more fetching & caching of data to speed up buttons. I’d like to see more done around sharing content. For example, it would be great if we could just drag a link ontop of the Live Toolbar Share button. I’d also would be extremely useful to quickly lookup personal contacts to initiate a new message. etc…

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Seika/default.aspx Seika

    The web slice actually displayed 10 updates. But because the slice’s size is just that (small), and it has no scrollbar… only a bit is visible. Trying select and drag using mouse showed the rest.

    BTW, the Private Message and Invitation link is moved to a single line too.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Brammie2118/default.aspx Brammie2118