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Spaces, SkyDrive, Events: Changes in the works

Looks like some of the changes we're expecting are starting to roll out in Spaces land - new SkyDrive integration, a changed Spaces "What's New" page, and more Events sightings (although no sign of the product itself, yet).

Jamie T. spotted a number of the changes and features them in two posts on his Spaces blog: In the post New Spaces home page, Jamie points out a number of Facebook like features that we're not seeing here, yet, including updates to blog entries, upcoming birthdays (more on that in a bit), new friends of friends including an "Invite as friend" link, and a whole series of changes around SkyDrive.  We're not seeing all of the changes here, yet, but on our LiveSide Spaces site we do have a new link to SkyDrive from the "What's New" page

(Update: doh, looks like the SkyDrive/Spaces integration has been around for a bit - maybe I should read LiveSide ;).  There is more to say on this subject, stay tuned):

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...and a corresponding module on our Spaces site itself:

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Jamie also points out a link to Events that again he is seeing but we aren't here yet, a link to create an Event from the upcoming birthdays box:

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Stay tuned to LiveSide for the latest on some pretty cool new stuff coming our way soon.

Comments

 

mdsharpe said:

Skydrive will remain pointless for me until I can map a drive letter to it and drag'n'drop files without having to open IE. Then it will be excellent.

October 11, 2007 10:06 AM
 

foaf said:

Skydrive has been more useful to me than I expected. I actually find it more convienient than plugging in my USB stick. Agree with mdsharpe though, a drive letter would be brilliant.

I am seriously worried Live Events is a flop before it's began. It will rely on network effects, and hasn't facebook taken a huge chunk of the events info market already?

Serious integration with other Live services will be the only way to differentiate (Adding automatically to Live Calendar, Notifications on Live Messenger, Live Search Maps locations, auto Live Event RSS feeds to put onto Live.com) I hope they succeed!

October 11, 2007 11:01 AM
 

Chris said:

Foaf, totally agree with you on every point you made.

October 11, 2007 12:18 PM
 

Mephiles said:

I wish I could use SkyDrive as an image host. I go on a lot of forums.

October 11, 2007 4:42 PM
 

Tegument said:

mdsharpe, I'm pretty sure that's the plan, once they roll out the FolderShare syncing capability and/or client, you'll have an integrated mapping function in some form or fashion. I want it too, so hopefully they make it happen soon! ;)

October 11, 2007 7:50 PM
 

luisfelipe said:

Where is the new Spaces home page? I didn't see any change in my Spaces...

October 11, 2007 11:49 PM

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