Alright – with the exception of Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh, I don’t really care as much about the other Windows Live family members outside of Windows Live Writer.
I’m currently using the latest build – and the last from what I understand before we release it as supportable.
I was looking at the blog for Windows Live Writer and I guess we intend on calling it “Windows Live Writer 2009”. Apparently, the list of newly added capabilities into this Release Candidate build include:
But what’s more interesting to me are the new Plug Ins – namely the Twitter plug in and the Digg plug in.
The Twitter Plug In for Windows Live Writer enables you to immediately post a notification about your new blog entry to your Twitter account. It’s not very sophisticated but it’s amazingly easy to use and very convenient. I myself was kind of wondering about the usefulness of Twitter beyond social events and “friend communities” but this might actually be something to prove me wrong.
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=e5556096-52c7-4d95-9e6d-9ca0d5f65ce1&pl=8&bt=9
The Digg Plug In for Windows Live Writer is something that I hadn’t thought of because I don’t care about the “popularity” of this blog. The plug in makes it possible for people that read interesting things on your blog to “digg it up” and raise it’s profile on the famous “Digg.com” web site.
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=4c89ead0-4478-4248-86d6-bb5fa882ee55&pl=8&bt=9
(There’s also a Flickr plug in as well, but I could care less about Flickr since Spaces supports photo uploads and galleries just like Flickr through Windows Live Photo Albums, which Windows Live Writer natively supports.)
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