A failed opportunity
Although I’m a big fan of the Last.fm service on Xbox Live, I cant help but think MS missed the target slightly with Last.fm/Facebook/Twitter integration.
Had they gone the extra mile and allowed some form of access to the services from other areas of the console, they would have been on a winner. As it is, you cannot listen to Last.fm while playing any games, only within the Last.fm area of the dash. The same goes for Twitter. Something as simple as allowing people to tweet from the guide button mid-game is sorely lacking from the service. Even some kind of pop-up notification system showing new tweets, similar to how the system deals with displaying friend logins, would have been something.
As things stand, the extra services are good, but a little extra effort and they could have been great.
