360 Dash Update Coming Tuesday

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Those of you who weren’t lucky enough to get in the Xbox 360 Preview Program haven’t been able to play with Twitter, Facebook, and Last.FM integration on your console for the past few weeks. Trust me, you aren’t missing much. But in case you can’t live without these new features, the update will go live this coming Tuesday, November 17th.

We’ve been playing around with the update for a while, and it’s just okay for me. I fired up Facebook and Twitter once each, but have used Last.FM quite a bit. Not a bad update, but nothing as big as when we first got Netflix on the 360.

Spare yourself from some Modern Warfare 2 action this coming Tuesday and grab the update. You know you want to stalk people on Facebook on your living room TV.

Impressions: Xbox Live Update

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Networking communities these days harp on and on about the closeness of their members.  There are so many out there on the internet that it’s hard to distinguish which ones are which? Well, I guess that’s only true if you were to ask anyone over the age of 40.  It doesn’t matter whether the community is your lame ass company putt-putt tournament featured on ESPN 4, or online friend communities like Myspace and Facebook, they all try to bring people closer together (and even some people you don’t want to).  Yep, I’m talking about Herbie “Pervy” in Accounts Recieveable.

Microsoft is set to add content from the Facebook and Twitter communities for Gold members of Xbox Live hoping to tap in to even more communities.  Also in for the update is the addition of an online music service called Last.FM and a new HD streaming service in the Zune Marketplace.  I happened to do the last write-up on the other major update to the NXE here, and I’m doing it again since I got into the preview program. Hit the jump for more »