This panel is called People Pane and in this panel, you can see an option for status updates.

To see different information for the person in the People Pane, click any of the tabs at the left side of the list window. There are six default tabs:

• All items This includes all activity and messages from the selected person.
• Activities This displays activity posted on the selected person’s social network sites, such as alerts, comments or messages.
• Mail A list appears of recent e-mail messages that you have exchanged with the selected person.
• Attachments Attachments that you have sent to or received from the selected person appear.
• Calendar Past and future meetings or appointments including both you and the selected person appear.
• Status updates This displays the most recent status updates that the selected person has posted.

If you want to add a new social network, click the add button below the profile image. Currently only SharePoint server is available for connect.

We might be able to see more network integration in future versions. You can also access the people pane from the view tab. Here you can minimize or turn off the pane.

If you are in an organization that uses Outlook 2010 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, the Outlook Social Connector can automatically connect with your organization’s SharePoint sites, to display your colleagues’ available activity items.

Once you have installed this WLW plugin, then the option appears inside the Insert Menu on the sidebar. You need to publish the post to cross post it to other blogs or social networks.

With xPollinate, you can cross post full or summarized versions of your entries to any other blogs you have configured in Live Writer. You can also use it to post announcements and full or summarized blog posts to your favorite social networking services like Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed etc.

You will need to have the latest version of WLW installed and also need to have .NET Framework 3.5 installed on your machine.

Download xPollinate

Most of the controls and features are fast. You can invite your friends from other social networks or directly email the invite. The website uses Windows Live Hotmail account, so you don’t have to create a new account.

There is a feature called Scribble Pad which is very similar to Scrap book feature in Orkut (Orkut is very popular social network in India). You can scribble your friends and each scribble can be up to 150 characters in length.

Another good feature is the integration of Windows Live Messenger with the Windows Live Planet service. You can see online friends on the bottom left hand corner of the window and also you can chat with them.

Try out Windows Live Planet and you can see the difference.

Social Submit is easy to use, all you need is to enter the URL, title and also the description and tags for the article. Select the social network by double clicking on from the list of sites. Social Submit supports almost all popular social networking, bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon, Reddit etc.

Social Submit acts like a browser and submits content based on your inputs.

Social Submit has the following advantages;

• Submits to all social and bookmarking websites.
• Easy access to all supported social websites

Social Submit does not require any installation and can be run easily.

Download Social Submit

If you have not used Ping.fm previously, here is a chance to try out of the good service to update multiple networks. The ping.fm dashboard has all the networks supported and you can add your networks. Once you are done with adding networks, you can update your status to these networks at one go.

Apart from the dashboard, you can also update via Email or IM. Ping.fm is a definitely a great service worth trying. So have your registered with Ping.fm?

[Via DownloadSquad]

New Layout

Old Layout

Another major feature is the use of tabs, personal info, boxes, photos etc are arranged in different tabs and switching between tabs is Ajax powered. With this navigating through profiles is much more faster. Users have the provision to add new tabs.

Overall the new design is less cluttered and also much faster than the previous one. You can try out the new beta layout here.

Source

You can check out more layouts at LayoutCodez.

Here is my customized Facebook layout.

LayoutCodez Home Page

Add the application to your profile and start sending SMS. Another feature of this application is that you can SMS your Orkut friends, but for this your friends should also be using this application.

Try the Application

Via [Digital IT Blog] Thanks Atul for the Tip.

Now select the option ‘—’ and you can see all your friends in thumbnail previews.

Each time you click on the “Generate random Facebook status”, you get a new funny and interesting status. Copy this status message and paste it into your Facebook status message box.

Funny Status Generator for Facebook