So far, however, despite some interesting applications mashups, the Live community has been a little murky on the details.
Microsoft's MIX07 developers and designers conference, coming up at the end of April in Las Vegas, promises to be the venue where the company reveals more of its plans to make Windows Live into a bona fide "platform" for third-party developers.
Company officials have hinted since last year that they are working to create such a unified developers platform for Live services. But they have been purposely vague about how it will all fit together. Instead, they have repeatedly said "wait for MIX07."