I'm pretty disappointed the latest dashboard update and iPhone app didn't really do anything to make organising games easier beyond setting beacons. You don't get notifications for new messages and beacons don't target individual people.
Anyway, here's an idea for a menubar app that could possibly deal with what data Xbox.com currently gives you. I wouldn't want a fullscreen app dedicated to Live, but if the menubar icon changed from time to time it'd let me keep tabs with incoming messages and people that are popping on.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't have a Facebook/Twitter/Phone Number for everyone I play games with - some of them are just randomers I met up and added to my friends list. This is just a means to make playing together easier.
@Fabio If I am not mistaken, there used to be an app for Mac called "Friendz" which connected through some sort of Xbox Live API. It allowed you to check friend statuses, send messages, and edit your profile. Which makes this seem do-able.
@Jonathan & @Fabio: An interesting link @jamiebicknell sent me last night was that MyGamerCard had shut down because of the lack of support provided by Microsoft thesedays.
He specifically mentions the fact everyone uses screen scraping to get more info than Microsoft is usually willing to give. I guess it'd be the only way to viably do something like this idea, and it might require more scrape requests than your usual TrueAchievements type of service.
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Glenn Hitchcock
I'm pretty disappointed the latest dashboard update and iPhone app didn't really do anything to make organising games easier beyond setting beacons. You don't get notifications for new messages and beacons don't target individual people.
Anyway, here's an idea for a menubar app that could possibly deal with what data Xbox.com currently gives you. I wouldn't want a fullscreen app dedicated to Live, but if the menubar icon changed from time to time it'd let me keep tabs with incoming messages and people that are popping on.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't have a Facebook/Twitter/Phone Number for everyone I play games with - some of them are just randomers I met up and added to my friends list. This is just a means to make playing together easier.
over 1 year ago
This is awesome, I wish it was real!
over 1 year ago
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Fabio Basile
Awesome idea Glenn! I am not sure how much data you can get from Microsoft servers (live player status?) but I would love to use it myself!
over 1 year ago
@Fabio If I am not mistaken, there used to be an app for Mac called "Friendz" which connected through some sort of Xbox Live API. It allowed you to check friend statuses, send messages, and edit your profile. Which makes this seem do-able.
over 1 year ago
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Mani
nice n clean.
over 1 year ago
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Glenn Hitchcock
@Jonathan & @Fabio: An interesting link @jamiebicknell sent me last night was that MyGamerCard had shut down because of the lack of support provided by Microsoft thesedays.
He specifically mentions the fact everyone uses screen scraping to get more info than Microsoft is usually willing to give. I guess it'd be the only way to viably do something like this idea, and it might require more scrape requests than your usual TrueAchievements type of service.
over 1 year ago
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Daniel Sandvik
Well done!
over 1 year ago
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by Dave Ruse
Nice! Whipped together a PSN version.
Thanks to @dannpetty for the avatar pack I used.
over 1 year ago
luv this
over 1 year ago
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Muhammad El Melegy
Yes!
over 1 year ago
Looks jubbly
over 1 year ago
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Max Litvin
Cool!
about 1 year ago
Wow
about 1 year ago
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Joel Reid
Very nice. Gaming dashboards can use all the help they can get. Haha!
11 months ago