Social

Zune 2.5 Update Brings TV Shows, More Social Networking, Improved Software Features

The Zune 2.5 Spring update launches tomorrow, and with it comes purchasable TV shows and even more social networking functions. The big part is more tightly-integrated social stuff—like being able to see your friends' Zune cards inside of the Zune software instead of heading to your browser—the upside of which is automatically getting the full tracks that your friends have recently listened to if you're a Zune Pass subscriber. This takes up about 100 megs per friend card. There's also improvement in the player itself, like the return of auto playlists and the introduction of gapless playback. Wee! More »

11:28 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Jason Chen
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Latest by quikboy: This is a great update. Much better than the last one. I hope the Fall update is just as good (maybe with Zune 3?) more »

software

Zune Social Gets Updates, Paste-able Profiles

The Zune Social, Zune's social networking site, just got a slight upgrade yesterday. Besides general stability and performance enhancements, there's navigation improvements that let you remove friends and view song and album information in send dialogues. The coolest thing is the Zune Gadgets page, which lets you embed a profile card (much like the Xbox Live gamercard) that shows the last few albums and artists you listend to. [ZuneInsider]

3:50 PM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Jason Chen
1,861 views, 10 comments

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Zune Social Lets You Peep On Your Friends' Music Habits

You saw our complete Zune guide yesterday, but what you didn't see was the Zune Social—which didn't go up until today! The social is pretty much Facebook for music (and only music), and displays the stuff you and people on your list have listened to on their Zune players. It really helps your enjoyment if you've got more than one friend who has the Zune, which is probably the point.

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12:18 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Jason Chen
3,603 views, 15 comments

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More Details on Zune Social Networking Features

This is not text messaging and it's not even on the Zune itself. This is just a document illustrating how the Zune Social networking features will work in the software on your PC. You're sending messages—pointers to songs or albums—with your own notes to your friends, which are shown in the inbox portion of the software. No new features we haven't seen yet, just a doc showing how it'll work. We've sent Haroon to remedial reading comprehension school in the mean time. -J.C. More »

6:00 PM on Sat Oct 20 2007
By Haroon Malik
9,148 views, 18 comments

portable media

Former Diamond, Musicmatch, and iRiver Execs Band Together To Make Captain Planet-Level Music Player

What do you get when you combine three execs from companies that didn't quite make as huge a dent on the portable media player industry as Apple? A company called Broadband Instruments with plans to release some sort of ultimate music player that's based on an "internet radio ecosystem". More »

2:10 PM on Tue Feb 13 2007
By Jason Chen
536 views, 4 comments

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Radar: Cellphone App For The Always Connected

If you're one of those people that always need to tell people exactly what they're doing, then Radar.net is just the thing for you. Essentially a social group made up of people you invite, Radar lets you email or MMS pictures to it which gets spread to everyone else in your network. More »

6:00 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Jason Chen
838 views, 4 comments

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CNET Finds Only One Person To Be Zune Social With in San Fran.

Welcome to the social. That's Microsoft's slogan to describe the kind of social interaction you can expect when fooling around with your Zune. Too bad CNET found all of one person to squirt at in its travels in San Francisco. Yes, one person. More »

8:22 AM on Mon Dec 11 2006
By Gizloco
965 views, 23 comments

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