How to invite your friends from social networks to join your Windows Live Messenger contact list
Posted by gasusan2005 on 03/25/08 in The Internet
John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform at Microsoft, announces a set of new partnerships signed by Microsoft and 5 major social networks: Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged, and LinkedIn.
Starting today, we will be working with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn to exchange functionally-similar Contacts APIs, allowing us to create a safe, secure two-way street for users to move their relationships between our respective services. Along with these collaborations, Microsoft is introducing a new website at www.invite2messenger.net that people can visit to invite their friends from our partner social networks to join their Windows Live Messenger contact list.
Continue reading after the break to see step by step how easy it is to do! (and if you are one of my friends on Facebook you should be getting an invite to join my WLM contact list soon~Susan)
When you go to www.invite2messenger.net, you will first be asked to log in
Step 1: you will be presented with a list of services that you could import contact information from:
Step 2:enter your email address that you use to log in to site (example, Facebook)
Step 3: Select Contacts
Step 4: Invite your friends
Done!
This functionality should be live today for Facebook with the others to follow along in the coming weeks and months.
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Good writeup, Susan! Good to see Microsoft stepping into “the game” with this.