LIVE ideas

The whole Zune Social thing hangs on our Windows Live ID. Hence, there is the possibility for MUCH more integration with other Windows Live stuff. Here's a few ideas:

1. Show all my Zune friends in a dedicated contact group e.g. "My Zune friends" within my Live Contacts (http://contacts.live.com).
2. Allow me to invite Zune Social members to be Live Messenger contacts. 
3. Allow me to invite my Zune friends to be Live Spaces friends and vice versa.
4. On Zune Social, display whether I am online or not (http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!550F681DAD532637!3203.entry) and thus build instant messaging into Zune Social
5. Have some sort of chat room in Zune Social that I can interact with using Live Messenger.
6. Show my most recently listened to song on my Live Messenger status
7. Show where in the world my Zune friends live on a Virtual Earth map
8. Use Live Alerts to tell me when someone has replied to one of my forum postings
9. Put a Zune tab into Live Messenger which displays mine and my friends' Zune Tags. Or, let me right-click on a contact in Live Messenger and let me see their Zune Tag.
10. Synchronise photos from Live Spaces onto my Zune
11. Synchronise videos from MSN Soapbox onto my Zune
12. Build a Windows Live Toolbar button that takes me to Zune Social
13. Let us form communities (after Windows Live Groups comes out) around artists that we like. Surface these communities in Zune Social. Perhaps even automatically place me into groups based on what I listen to.
14. Display pertinent Zune info on my Live Spaces news feed (e.g. A friend has added a new favorite on Zune Social, A particular band has gone to the top of a friend's 'most listened to' list, someone else likes the same music as me, Someone has sent me a message on Zune Social
15. Let me view messages in my Zune Social inbox within from Windows Live Mail 
16. Put a "blog this" link in various places in Zune Social that then launches me into a new blog entry in Live Spaces.
17. I could have a category on my Live Spaces blog called "Zune". And blogs in that category automatically appear in my Zune profile (http://social.zune.net/member/jamiethomson)

Any more ideas?

-Jamie

http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com

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