Integrating Online Assets

Having signed up to most of the Windows Live suite of products, it is nice to finally see them all coming together into one comprehensive platform. So I thought I would at last try Live Spaces (my usual ravings appear at my personal blog: Andrew Watson

So for my first post, and as someone who spends a great deal of time with the internet - I have become more interested in the complete offerings by the big players - so a quick review (microsoft / yahoo / google etc). In summary:

Google - functional, dis-jointed and still fairly ugly 6/10
Can’t ever see gmail / calendar / notes / blogger / google office / adwords / analytics / webmaster tool being integrated - that for me would be utopia

Yahoo - Chaos in both functionality and branding 4/10
Have absolutely no idea what Yahoo is trying to achieve / stand for anymore - maybe they should tie into Google or Microsoft… or just do something… revised score 3/10

Microsoft - Still dis-jointed but cleaner functionality and asthetically pleasing 7/10
Tying in Skydrive / photos / mail / blogging / calendar etc is really growing on me… skydrive is an excellent addition. Still a way to go… analytics on this blog and my personal blog and linking into office live would beat any google utopia… I would even pay a subscription fee !!!

Any other complete offerings that I have missed / other thoughts - let me know !