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360voice.com Gives Your Xbox 360 a Blog

Written by Ken Edwards
Published July 28, 2006

360voice.com has a really neat site you should check out if you are an Xbox 360 user. There seems to be a cottage industry for websites generating reports from Xbox 360 data, but none integrate things as well as 360voice.

I have used it since April and the feature set of the site has grown by leaps and bounds since then. The longer you have been a user, the more useful the data becomes, as expected.

Utilizing the data-stream from Microsoft, as well as integrating other data and links from xbox.com, 360friendspot.com, gamerscorechart.com, and mygamercard.net, 360voice is a great idea that keeps getting better.

The site offers an API, which they have been actively developing, plus RSS feeds. Some of the random sayings from "your" 360 are pretty funny too.

The Top 10 Most Played Games is probably the best feature offered. It only tracks games you have played since you signed up for the service, however. This is a general note you should be aware of. If you have 1000 points in Call of Duty 2 and play that game after you sign up for 360voice, it will record your daily Gamer score as earning 1000 points in Call of Duty 2 that day.

That is a minor annoyance, and one that is shackled to the way the data is provided and used.

Another new feature (keep adding more guys!) are 360voice Badges. The developers have picked specific achievements or criteria that are noteworthy. If your profile has one, you get a nice badge. Matt completed 100% of the CoD2 achievements, so he gets a spiffy badge.

There are some cool (and insane) badges, such as Geometry Wars 50 Days of Play.

The site has a public directory of all registered Gamertags, as well as a Leader board generated from those registered users.

Ken Edwards is the Gaming Editor at Blogcritics, and calls Breaking Windows home. Ken works part time for Student Publications at BGSU as the Webmaster and System Administrator. He is also a freelance web developer.

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360voice.com Gives Your Xbox 360 a Blog
Published: July 28, 2006
Type: News
Section: Gaming
Filed Under: Gaming: News, Sci/Tech: Blogging, Sci/Tech: Internet
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#1 — July 28, 2006 @ 13:17PM — jimmcq [URL]

360voice.com is a great site... the witty sayings are always fun

#2 — July 29, 2006 @ 04:59AM — Andrew Ogier

The biggest joy of it is that it seems every time I log in, there's more phrases, new achievements to earn, and useful additions to the site.

#3 — October 13, 2006 @ 07:33AM — Ken Edwards [URL]

Did anyone notice the recent overhaul the site got? Really great stuff.

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