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Sanaz Ahari talking about Windows Live - I'm trying to take verbatim notes so all of the below is her words, not mine

live.com, the front door to Windows live services. Unify my world and put me at the center of my services. Live.com homepage-- feeds, RSS, ATOM, etc. Keep track on home page. Today simple experience. A lot of improvements in the works. One of the goals is to be the best place to search. Some of the integrations are available today. Some want a simple search experience, hide gadgets with one click, clean fast home page. Eg. Keeping track of first qtr earnings. One of the features - you can actually click on the different filters - news, etc. More coming. One of the features, grab a whole search query and add it to your page. For news and topics - saved search on your home page. Imagine a desktop filter of things you are interested in. One other search integration - make it easier to find feeds. Search on Superbowl tickets. One thing you'd note is that things are done asynchronously. You know AJAX, spare the details. Interested someone who is giving away my tickets. Subscribe to feed. See headlines, click into full info. Feed added into "my stuff" directory in the side bar. Feeds and gadgets. Interested, but don't want them to clutter up the whole page. Goal is to get Scoble use our RSS system to track his 800+ subscriptions.

Mentioned gadgets. Gadgets are mini applications. Snippets of data that consume services on the web. Having an RSS feed with a richer experience with behavior on top of it. We have some windows live services. We want to be the place where you unify your windows live services. Mail, safety now. Snippet of personalized info on Live.com so you don't have to go to 50 different services.

Example: weather. How simple and easy. Drag and drop, no refresh. Make the web feel like an app. Your desktop on the web. Add in weather for Aspen colorado . A very cool gadget that shows the power. Most today are very simple. This one is TV recommendations. Example of how gadgets consume services, allow connection of web to desktop. Media Center Edition (DVR) connected to this service. Rate currently viewed shows, get recommendations, then one click for recording on MCE. So trigger recording remotely. (My editorial comment here: my husband will love this). The gadget is shipping soon.

We want users to use our AJAX to build their own gadgets on our platform. Unify here. One feature shipping tomorrow. Today on Live.com the RSS view is bland - just text. Small steps based on user feedback. Want it richer. Hit the fine balance between richness and clutter. If RSS feed has image, have rotation on home page.

We will enable you to take the gadgets and drag and drop them on to the desktop. Will be released for XP as well.

Also there is an image of this for us to blog about tomorrow. Also for the media center. Gee, I should wait to post this tomorrow, but heck, I'll never edit so I'm going to just hit publish now.


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