Monday, November 24, 2008

Facebook and YouTube plug-ins for Windows Live

I've always found it pointless to use Windows Live applications if they don't work together with the online services that I already use. Well, recently released plug-ins are about to change that, and make a lot of people happy in the process. With just a few clicks you can share your photos and videos on Facebook and YouTube. If you're more interested on how the plug-ins were created, you can even take a look at the source code.

LiveUpload to Facebook is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery beta. The plug-in takes advantage of the new people tagging feature in Photo Gallery, meaning tags of your friends in Photo Gallery will also appear on Facebook, assuming you have the same friends there too. You can also add multiple Facebook accounts (great for home computers), and upload your pictures to an existing or new album.

LiveUpload to YouTube is a plug-in for both Windows Live Photo Gallery beta and Windows Live Movie Maker beta. It works just like the Facebook plug-in, except that it allows you to upload straight to YouTube videos that you're storing in Photo Gallery or that you've just created in Movie Maker.

You can check out more plug-ins (Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, and Drupal) on the Windows Live Photo & Video Blog download page.

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