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Chapter 1 Pre-Flight Checklist:What to Do Before YouGet Your Windows Phone
FIgure 1-13: As soon as you connect to a service from Windows Live,
content from that service appears in your Messenger social feed.
NOTE Messenger social used to be called What’s New. I still think that was a
better and more descriptive name. Microsoft renamed it to Messenger Social
because this list is also available via Windows Live Messenger, the company’s
IM application for Windows.
Okay, time to add one more service, and this time you’ll use a different type of
connection. While most of the services you can connect to Windows Live require you
to be a member, some do not. For example, you may have a favorite web site that pro-
vides regular updates. These types of sites typically use an RSS feed to alert people
about updates, and Windows Live supports connecting to any RSS feed via a generic
Blog RSS Feed connection. You can nd this option at the bottom of the main Ser-
vices page.
You’ll need the web site’s RSS URL (uniform resource locator, essentially its web
address) in order to make the connection. While each browser does this is a bit differ-
ently, most work similarly. In Internet Explorer, navigate to the web site and notice
that the Feeds icon in the Command Bar turns orange, indicating that a feed is avail-
able. To view the feed, click the button. IE will now display the feed provided by the
web site, as shown in Figure 1-14.
Technically
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speaking, the
Blog RSS Feed
connection works
with both RSS and
Atom feeds. They
work similarly.
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