User Manual

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Using Windows Live ID to Access Your Social Networks and Other Services
FIgure 1-14: Web browsers can display RSS feeds, which you can connect to Windows Live.
The RSS URL, or address, can be found in the browser’s Address Bar. Select this
text and copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl+C works nicely). Then, paste it into the Blog URL
on Windows Live’s Connect Blog RSS Feed to Windows Live page and click Connect.
After a bit of churning, the web site’s feed will be added to your Messenger social feed
as well.
gettIng around the Blog rss Feed’s BIg lIMItatIon
The Blog RSS Feed connection has one very serious limitation: You can only
connect it to one web site. That is, despite the fact that you probably have
multiple sites for which you’d like to receive updates, Windows Live only
lets you connect with one RSS (or Atom) feed. This is, of course, ridiculous.
Is there a way around this? Yes, but it’s a bit convoluted. Using an RSS ag-
gregator service such as Friendfeed (
friendfeed.com), you can connect to
all the web site RSS feeds you want, and then connect Windows Live to your
Friendfeed RSS feed. Silly? You bet.
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