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November 26, 2007

Microsoft Brings Social Networking Style Feature To The XBox 360

Duncan Riley

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xbox.jpgAn update due to be available to XBox 360 users December 4 will bring a social networking style feature to users of the XBox Live service.

Xbox Live, for those not familiar with the service, is Microsoft’s online gaming service that allows users to play online games with friends and others. The service has always supported a friends list, but the new changes will now allow users to see friends of friends, opening up gaming opportunities beyond current contacts.

Ars Technica calls the move “very MySpace” but social networking on XBox Live wont be in the same format. Online game collaboration on Xbox includes voice chat, so the social aspects wont resemble the profile pages and similar social networking aspects we’ve come to expect from social networking sites, but it will be a much more social service in a traditional sense of the word social.

The update will include privacy settings that will allow users to make their friends list available to everyone (members 18 or older), friends only (13 years and up) or blocked, which will be the default setting for users under 13 but available as a choice to everyone.

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  1. gary gonzales

    November 26th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    the first.

  2. Troll

    November 26th, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    gary, first comment - if you can call it that…you epitomize the ideal troll

  3. IPTV died and P2P live TV is grown up in China

    November 26th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    P2P live streaming has been officially enhanced by Chinese government since the begginning of 2007. As you see http://nba.sports.cctv.com/01/index.shtml, people could enjoy NBA matchs online with p2p enpowered system from Koos ltd., a small company in west China.

    It was predicted, In 2008, hundreds of Olympic matchs will be shown in CCTV.com by P2P streaming system with millions of users online simultaneously. Maybe that is the time for people to see P2P application by media industry.

    –CCTV.com, as the name China Central TV station, is the majoy TV network in China with 75% the civil market.

  4. rick

    November 26th, 2007 at 6:02 pm

    This is the only way iptv is going to happen, 3, not sure what you mean.

  5. Bjorn

    November 26th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    This is good news. Maybe I’ll finally be able to create a nice team for COD4 matches. :/

  6. Kaiser

    November 26th, 2007 at 6:41 pm

    Bjorn, hook me up - i’ll blast away with ya.

    Kaiser5

  7. gary gonzales

    November 26th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    Troll, you are not even worth a response but because your brains is as big as a peanut, look up what a comment is.

    comment, a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief

  8. Charles

    November 26th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    BACK to the subject what an awesome feature for XBL to expand this to atleast have it as an option is great, Instead of adding people or saying “Hey, get this guy or so and so” people can just see on there own, excellent way to keep the social aspect growing, which has been for many years on XBL.

    Off topic - Yelling out ‘firsties’ ? Is your homework done? does mommy know your on the internets? what’s almost funnier then how dumb you act is you throw out another ‘comment’ and don’t comment about anything.

  9. biotech companies

    November 26th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    I think if I hear “social networking” one more time, I am gonna puke.

  10. Social Networking

    November 26th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    HI biotech
    Social Networking is the social networking of the new age.

  11. Charles

    November 26th, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    now that was clever

  12. Kaiser

    November 26th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    Biotech - does those make any money?

    Maybe you ought to socialize your molecules and see what they can do in high concentration with similar ‘likenesses’ and ‘interests’.

  13. adoption new york

    November 26th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    An awful lot of people here with a lot of time on their hands :)

  14. file2fone

    November 27th, 2007 at 8:03 am

    Good news for game enthusiastic, possibly microsoft will target facebook users too.

  15. someonewhocares

    November 27th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    thats just so ghay!

  16. Steve Ballmer

    November 27th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    xBox has always been able to do this crap, you people are just discovering it?

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  17. lil man

    November 28th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    this is the stupidest idea ever…..i have xbox whats the point of adding friends from your friends list?…..its really pointless

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