Microsoft has announced the launch of tailored Facebook and Last.fm services for Xbox Live users, enabling the two social media offerings to be accessed via TVs.
Facebook users on Xbox Live will be able to carry out normal activities such as updating their statuses and uploading photos, as well as sharing their top gaming achievements with their networks through Facebook Connect.
The Last.fm application allows users to listen to millions of streamed music tracks and create their own customised internet radio stations through their TVs.
Announcing the news at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft also revealed that is to allow Xbox Live users to watch movie streams from Netflix and view live or on-demand TV programmes from Sky through their consoles.
"We're not only extending the walls of your living room beyond your home to your friends in different corners of the world, we're creating the definitive social network, uniting more than 200 million people," says John Schappert of Microsoft.
Xbox Live was first launched by Microsoft in 2002 as an online gaming channel allowing Xbox owners to play under a unique user ID, challenge friends to multiplayer games online and download new game content such as extra levels.
The network now has more than 20 million members worldwide.
