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Get the New Windows Live Web Slice

Sarah Perez — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:31:00 GMT

If you have browsed over to your Windows Live homepage using the latest version of Internet Explorer 8, you may have noticed a new, shiny green button appear on your toolbar just to the right of the “home” icon. Wonder what that is? It’s a new Web Slice designed for Windows Live. Click the button and you’ll see the option “What’s New with Your Network” as well as an RSS feed you could subscribe to in your favorite feed reader. To add the Web Slice to Internet Explorer, just click on the “What’s New” option. That places a new button in your Favorites Bar which, when clicked, will display the latest updates from your Window Live network of friends, including everything that you would see on the Windows Live homepage like status updates, new photos, new blog entries, Twitter posts, etc.

UK Clothing Retailer Using IE8 to Enhance Site

Sarah Perez — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:40:00 GMT

Since the debut of IE8, we’ve seen a lot of clever implementations of the new Web Slices, Accelerators, and Search Providers features, most of which can be found here on the IEAddons site. However, I thought it was interesting to see how some companies have started to use IE8 for their own purposes by providing their customers with tools specifically designed for the new web browser. One such example is the UK clothing retailer, Asos. They’ve customized their website to take advantage of the IE8 web slices feature so that their customers can subscribe to their favorite product pages right in their IE8 Favorites Bar. If any new information on the item the customer saved becomes available – like a price change, for instance – the web slice will become highlighted to alert the customer of that change. I’d love to see more sites following Asos’ lead – especially those favorite stores of mine here in the US!

Gallery of Downloadable Webslices for IE8

Sarah Perez — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:44:00 GMT

There’s a new site called Liveslices.com where those of you running the IE 8 Release Candidate can browse through and install Webslices from an online gallery. Webslices are a new way to keep up with frequently updated webpages using the new version of IE. When you subscribe to a Webslice (look for a green button), the “slice” is added to your Favorites bar sort of like a bookmark. You can click on the Webslice/bookmark anytime to see a dynamic window appear with relevant info about that web page – all without leaving the page you’re currently browsing.

The new Liveslices site is not a Microsoft-owned property, but the look of its design has a similar feel to those sites we’re seeing in the Microsoft family of websites, including the one for IE 8. (Right down to the same font!) In other words, it has a clean and simple layout.

When you click into the Liveslices gallery, you’re presented with a list of Webslices to choose from and the company promises that they’re going to keep adding to this list.

The ones they currently have available are pretty cool – there are Webslices for Flickr, Twitter, feeds, Gmail, CNN, MSNBC, and more. My favorites (clearly) are the Twitter, Gmail, and Feed ones. With the Gmail and Twitter slices, you can click to see the latest from both your Twitter account and your inbox. The feed one is also great for keep up with your favorite sites. Photogs will love the two Flickr slices for checking out the most interesting photos and the uploads from everyone.

Although the site is brand-new, it’s clearly off to a good start. Got any suggestions for how they can improve? You can leave a comment on their blog here.

WebSlices in Wikipedia

Sarah Perez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:07:00 GMT

Guess who just joined the early adopters of Internet Explorer 8's new WebSlices feature? None other than the open-source, free encyclopedia site, Wikipedia. Thanks to Wikipedia user Soum Yasch and others, Wiki templates have been built to support the new IE8 WebSlices. You can see them in action on this page, which is the only one featuring them just yet.

If you hadn't heard, WebSlices are a new IE8 feature that let you subscirbe to content directly within a web page. You access them from your IE Favorites Bar, where you'll be able to click on them and see real-time rich internet content. (via)

WebSlices Hit the Desktop

Sarah Perez — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:24:00 GMT

I just saw a post this morning about Sean Lyndersay's new Sidebar gadget called the "WebSlice Viewer Gadget." This brilliant little creation brings IE8's WebSlices (bits of web content that you can access from the new IE8 Favorites Bar) right to your desktop via a simple Vista Sidebar gadget.

The gadget, currently in alpha (you've been warned!), requires Vista (unknown if x64 supported, but let us know), IE8, and a web page that has some WebSlices. Each instance of the WebSlice Viewer shows only one WebSlice, so you will need to open multiple gadgets to show multiple views.

You can download the WebSlice gadget from Sean's SkyDrive.

Me.dium: WebSlices and Activities in Internet Explorer 8

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:41:00 GMT

In this video, Me.dium discusses how they are using the new features of Internet Explorer 8 to make the web a more social experience.

David Mandell from Me.dium shows off the WebSlices and the Activities that Me.dium created to integrate their services into the new IE8 and leverage the new rich user experiences provided by this platform.