So we're sure all you social addicts out there have been waiting for your xbox to be able to connect to Twitter and Facebook ever since the announcement at E3. Well the good news is that James Halton, a Microsoft marketing guru, has said that they are looking towards and "autumn" release for the applications. Now he's not getting very specific on the date but we do know that the updates will be lone applications and not part of an actual dashboard update and that it will come "before Christmas."

So those of you hoping for these features to be integrated into the August 11th dashboard update can quit crossing your fingers.