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New Windows Live Mobile homepage launches into beta

A new Windows Live Mobile homepage has just been launched into beta over at http://mhome.live.com. Thought its just the first milestone, the new page features several nifty features. These include:

  • The “What’s new” summary, showing recent updates made by your friends
  • Ability to query Live Search direct from the homepage
  • Easy access to the other mobile Windows Live services (mail, messenger, spaces)

Key here is the implementation of the “What’s new” feed, that is also currently available on the PC through spaces.live.com. This is something that Facebook has developed into a must-have feature for social networking, especially by making it available through their mobile site.

Obviously this is just the first beta for the new mobile homepage so the currently implemented features are the basics. We’d expect to see more advanced features like photo update notifications and mailbox previews in the next milestones, but the question is whether the team can innovate in this area.

Click to enlarge the screenshot, or check it out at http://mhome.live.com on your mobile device.

Comments

abdul wrote re: New Windows Live Mobile homepage launches into beta
on 05-24-2008 9:03 AM

Of topic Chris, but what is going with Live Maps for the UK users?

Why our being force fed an inferior product live MultiMap? This is a major let down, like me I am back to depending on Google Maps for Map searching.

I read somewhere that this has been resolved but it has. And the only way I've found to get to Maps.live.com is to tweek the regions settings on my computer to the US.

Chris wrote re: New Windows Live Mobile homepage launches into beta
on 05-26-2008 6:38 PM

abdul, now if you visit maps.live.com you should get the site you want.  if you visit live.com and hit the maps search however, you will get multimap.

See this page for the full details:

www.liveside.net/.../changes-afoot-for-uk-live-maps-users-a-heads-up.aspx

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