IMHO, thse http://www.live.com is not desperate.
OK, it resembles me Yahoo! My portal http://www.my.yahoo.com and it works slow on my 512kb shared connection…
Buy hey, M$ Live web-portal has good concepts underneath and I full heartly believe that happy first users of http://www.live.com will direct M$ Live! web developers into the right direction, luckily…
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Windows Live – some good things…
In addition to my previous post I did find something nice on the Windows Live site – the search. Ok, the scrolling should be smooth in order for it to be usable, but I really liked the idea how you got rid of search result paging. What happens when you start scrolling down (with that awful slider) is that the site goes out and uses AJAX to read in more results. So you can scroll till you drop, and never need to click a next-page button ever again.
And oh, the image search result page is a beauty! Nicely done, now make it faster!
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Well, Microsoft just release live.com. I really don’t know how to describe it. A personalizable page which combines news, search, feeds, mail, gadgets (widgets) and a lot of more stuff you really don’t need under a single roof, all with Ajax. I played around with it but really found nothing of interest. Ok, it’s in beta, Microsoft has been in a dead hurry to catch up with Google and its really quite an interesting platform. But how about some relevant content?
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Paging is dead, long live scroll
Still paging is better UX experience for me, especially on my 512kb shared connection with 20 more people, thus I agree scrolling should be more smoother.
Anyway, good showcase for using AJAX.
I was interesting to try Live! search functionality, gives food to my mind.