Twitter and Facebook , on your Xbox . It ’s weird , like multitude who put catsup on their eggs .
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Twitter actually makes the most instinctive jump to the Xbox . It ’s a really canonic app , with your timeline , search , and slew topics , but it works , largely because the vertical stream is preserved , even if you could only see four ( very legible ) tweets at a fourth dimension , so you wo n’t be power - browsing , TweetDeck style , by any substance . It ’s slow , and type ’s reeeeeeeally frustrating , like have got your eyeball stab out one pinprick at a time , if you do n’t have the chatpad ( part of thinks this full update is all a giant cabal to sell more Xbox 360 chatpads ) . update can sometimes take forever to pip your Twitter stream , too . Still , it ’s pretty , and works the best of the Modern apps .
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Facebook uses the received Xbox tile UI instead of rolling its interface , like Twitter did . Which is disorient ( and disappointing ) , since you ’re shop through a flow horizontally , one choppily - animated tile at a clock time . Why is the tile - slip animation so terrible on a monster console table like the Xbox 360 ? We do n’t recognize . Like Twitter , it ’s basic — focused on Newsfeeds . Your group are ported over , so you could browse their newsfeeds individually , but you literally have to browse one office at a time , which is harrowing , making you far less fain to comment on update .
The interface works much better , and feels way more natural , with photo albums . What ’s interesting is that , at least in the preview , your friends have to link their Xbox Live and Facebook accounts together themselves for show up in the “ Xbox Live Friends on Facebook ” ( and vice versa ) page — you ca n’t manually go in and link Jason Chen ’s account so you ’ll see them together in your app . That might change though , with the concluding rollout . ( Here’ssome videoof it , from Kotaku . )
https://kotaku.com/xbox-360-update-hands-on-facebook-and-twitter-5384838
Last.fm
This would be would be waaaaaay honorable if it could play in the background . It ca n’t . Meaning once you link your accounts and all of you station are nicely and automatically ported over , to take heed to Last.fm , you just have to sit there and leave it lead , with stria pictures floating up to your screen every once in a while . Lame . ( you’re able to see itin actionon Kotaku . )
https://kotaku.com/xbox-360-update-hands-on-last-fm-in-action-5384839
Zune Video Marketplace
Not a whole lot to write family about yet besides 1080p flow — it ’s a video storehouse on Xbox , with movies for rent or purchase , idiot box show , laggard — but Zune Video is here and it , um , solve . You browse through the standard Xbox interface , like Netflix . We did n’t get a chance to habituate the potential killer feature — Party fashion , where you may catch clobber with your supporter — yet , but if anything makes the Zune video store really remain firm out , that could be it . preview , alas , did n’t amount in at 1080p , even over FiOS , which intelligibly has the bandwidth to have .
All in all , the young apps , they ’re interesting , they add together something , but with the exception of Zune Video Marketplace , are n’t critical . At least for now .
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