An invitation to help me design a new feature

 Aughie wrote:

 PassMcNasty wrote:

Your Zune tag name and Xbox tag name are the same. The points on your accounts are interchangeable, and your friends from Xbox Live all show up on your Zune friends and vice versa. They're practically the same thing, if they can just intermingle them.
As far as the keyboard goes, it's just a basic on screen keyboard that you input characters in 1 by 1 by moving the cursor to the particular character and selecting it. This would be extremely easy to do on the Zune, and it would open the door for Wi-Fi.

Sorry I wasn't real clear with that post.  What I meant was not the Zune and Xbox ID could be the same, but the Zune, Xbox and LIVE id could be the same.  My messenger friends could show up here as well and when in messenger my Zune profile page could be accessible.

They could have a built in messenger client in the Zune social website, just like AIM, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and more specificially Google Talk has been doing for years. It's extremely simple to have the client embedded on your profile. They could also have the ability to use the messenger on your Zune device, as stated on the post I linked earlier.
This way, Xbox, LIVE, and Zune are all linked together. The Xbox is for gaming, the Zune is for music, the LIVE is for messenging and blog, ect.
It's that simple. Just allow people to go onto LIVE messenger with their Zune social accounts. You can access messenger from the 360, and 3rd party websites without ever having to install a client. Google Talk has prooved this. The majority of the users use the embedded version on the mail client! ICQ users have been taking advantage of ICQ to Go! on school computers, to use messenger without having to install anything.

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- Mike Wi-Fi Enhancements on the Zune Platform

Well...

I don't have an idea for the community, but I do have an idea for an update on the Zune itself. I have over 500 music videos on my Zune and the only problem I have with that is that I have to individually pick them. I would really love it if someone made it to where I could shuffle my videos like we can our MP3's. To me that just sems like common sense.  I mean it's just a video under 5 minutes or so, so you'd think you'd be able to have that option. Whether you have to turn it on and off or not. I really hope this can come to fruition. Thanks for your time.

 

 PassMcNasty wrote:

Your Zune tag name and Xbox tag name are the same. The points on your accounts are interchangeable, and your friends from Xbox Live all show up on your Zune friends and vice versa. They're practically the same thing, if they can just intermingle them.
As far as the keyboard goes, it's just a basic on screen keyboard that you input characters in 1 by 1 by moving the cursor to the particular character and selecting it. This would be extremely easy to do on the Zune, and it would open the door for Wi-Fi.

Sorry I wasn't real clear with that post.  What I meant was not the Zune and Xbox ID could be the same, but the Zune, Xbox and LIVE id could be the same.  My messenger friends could show up here as well and when in messenger my Zune profile page could be accessible.

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VenzAndSons | ButtNecked

 Aughie wrote:

I have never seen how the Xbox integration woks, but I think you guys have it on something with the LIVE integration.  We sign in with our LIVE ID here, yet it is really a seperate ID.  It would be nice to have to option to use the same indentity with them both, and to include the web messenger chat here as well.  

 
It might also be nice then to tie in any Microsoft badges (i.e - registered partner, virtual tech, etc) here through your LIVE ID.   Jeth, that would also give you something else to go from besides just the number of posts for formulating our level or rating.

Your Zune tag name and Xbox tag name are the same. The points on your accounts are interchangeable, and your friends from Xbox Live all show up on your Zune friends and vice versa. They're practically the same thing, if they can just intermingle them.
As far as the keyboard goes, it's just a basic on screen keyboard that you input characters in 1 by 1 by moving the cursor to the particular character and selecting it. This would be extremely easy to do on the Zune, and it would open the door for Wi-Fi.

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- Mike Wi-Fi Enhancements on the Zune Platform

This is a fantastic idea.  I have some development experience and though I'm sure I won't be "recruited" as a developer, I would be happy to extend some of my knowledge.

 

Bravo, Zune team.  Add me to the list!

I have never seen how the Xbox integration woks, but I think you guys have it on something with the LIVE integration.  We sign in with our LIVE ID here, yet it is really a seperate ID.  It would be nice to have to option to use the same indentity with them both, and to include the web messenger chat here as well.  

 
It might also be nice then to tie in any Microsoft badges (i.e - registered partner, virtual tech, etc) here through your LIVE ID.   Jeth, that would also give you something else to go from besides just the number of posts for formulating our level or rating.

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VenzAndSons | ButtNecked

http://forums.zune.net/163185/ShowPost.aspx
I've already touched grounds on that basis here.
I do think that Xbox Live integration, as far as receiving messages in your inbox from Xbox Live friends, and having your Zune card displayed under the 'Personal' tab under your profile tab, along with your Bio and Windows Live Messenger data. It doesn't even have to be interactive, even though the Xbox 360 would fully support this. I just think that people should be able to view your Zune card from the 360, because the services are integrated.They should also include the individual's Display Pic from Windows Messenger, in the Windows Messenger chats. But these are issues for the Xbox design team. The Zune card would be a nice suggestion to make, though, from the Zune design team to the Xbox design team.

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- Mike Wi-Fi Enhancements on the Zune Platform

It woulde be cool if you made it so you can check your zune page and messages from the zune itself, using the wireless feature, maby look at your friends recent plays too.

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance

Here is another thought for the social.

Right now it is focused around music, but the Zune let's you share photos, videos, and podcasts.  Something simple might be to let us share/display those items in our profiles as well.  That's more of the social aspect anyway.

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VenzAndSons | ButtNecked

Ideas - And a comment -

We can share a song for 3 plays by WiFi from Zune to Zune, why not let us do that here in the forums? We can now but it is multi-step.

By example I just purcahsed 3 Carlos Santana albums when a friend here reminded me of a long forgotten tune, and I've shared links to a few albums with people and been introduced to music I never would have listened to otherwise.  The easier you make if for us to share, the more we will do it.

I'm not sure how to discuss this topic, but Music has changed a LOT since I was the age of most of the people here, but is has changes in many ways -  one of them is taste.  In the 1960's you rarely listened to music from the '10, but now music is far more timeless. You wil fine 15 year old kids here listening to Jazz written and preformed before their parents were born.  This amazes me, and there is something here that is differnt that I just cannot put my finger on.  Oh well just brought it up.       

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Be nice now - 

Just post!

And in answer to the other question above - about there being plenty of ideas, let's pick one and go - honestly, there are some PR/marketing efforts around my little feature development, so I'm kind of waiting for that to happen. I think we're going to see a good influx of new people to the forum once those things happen, and I'd like to give them a chance to weigh in, too.

Lesson learned for me: to be totally transparent, I was initially operating under a different, tighter schedule, so I made my initial post before the marketing and PR stuff was ready because at the time I thought I needed to get started. Then I got permission to have a looser schedule, so I could take more time in the idea gathering phase.

So at this point, I'm probably going to continue this brainstorming exercise until March 7. My apologies to those of you who have been with me from the start - I want to pick and idea and go forward, too, but I just feel like we've got so much potential with the other people who don't know about this yet (it hasn't been advertised AT ALL yet!) that it's best to wait.

--Jessica

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Jessica Zahn, Zune Social Program Manager ~ This posting is provided as-is with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance