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Chapter 1 Pre-Flight Checklist:What to Do Before YouGet Your Windows Phone
Be sure to spend some time and connect to each of the services you already use.
You can view and edit your connected services via the Connected Services page, which
you can access by clicking the Manage Services link on the Services page. (Or navigate
directly to profile.live.com/Services/?view=manage.) As shown in Figure 1-15, this
page lets you edit the settings for each connected service, including privacy, or remove
individual services you’re no longer interested in accessing.
FIgure 1-15: Manage connected services.
Viewing and Interacting with Content
in the Messenger Social Feed
Once you’ve connected with all of your favorite services, it’s time to see why this is so
powerful. If you navigate to Windows Live Home (live.com), you’ll see updates from all
of your connected services appear in the Messenger social list. And that list could be
quite voluminous, especially if you connect to some of the “chattier” online services,
like Facebook.
What’s neat about this is that this list isn’t read-only. You can also perform certain
actions on each update without having to go visit the service from which it came. So if
you see a Facebook post, or a Flickr photoset, or whatever else you’d like to comment
on, you can do so, right from Windows Live.
To comment on an update, click the Comment link that appears next to the update.
When you do so, a new Comment interface opens up, as shown in Figure 1-16. You can
type your comment and then add it to whatever service it originated from.
You can also perform other actions. If you mouse over one of the updates, a small
gear icon will appear, as shown in Figure 1-17.
Click this gear and you’ll see a small pop-up menu (Figure 1-18). This menu lets
you mark the update’s poster as a Favorite—which I’ll explain in just a bit—or hide
updates from the service from which the update originated.
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