A lot of people nowadays have Twitter accounts, a Facebook account etc. and if you’re reading this then I’m also assuming you have a Windows Live account and some interest in Windows Live Services. Each of these have their own “Personal Message” where you can tell people what you are currently doing and there-in lies the problem. You have to visit each of these places to update them individually. Why not have a central place where you can update them all?

The good news is that you can. There are various ways of doing this, whether through a website or a Silverlight application. Basically anything that can use web services. With Microsoft’s recent introduction of the Windows Live Web Toolbar, I thought I’d do just that and show you how easy it is.  I will be building upon my previous articles regarding the new Windows Live controls so please go check them out if you haven’t already as I’ve discussed a lot of the code present in this mashup in previous articles.

Following on from my previous tutorial on how to integrate the Windows Live Web Bar into your site, we’ll build upon this and show you some of the other UI controls that you can use in your site.

One thing that a lot of people might want to do is display the signed-on users’ display picture somewhere on the site other than in the web-bar.