Recently announced at E3 – Xbox 360 will be supporting three of the most popular web applications this fall.
Last.fm, a sister company to Netflix, will be available on Xbox Live. If you don’t have a Last.fm account, this author highly recommends you do. Their service allows users with an account to enter in the name of an artist or genre, and the service builds a library of music based on matching artists. You can ‘favorite’ or ‘ban’ artists or songs as well, allowing you to customize your own streamable music library.

Twitter allows users to micro-blog whatever they’re doing or thinking, which is published to a personal RSS feed for others to view. Be prepared for a lot of useless Raptr-like Tweets about “JoeSchmoe has just started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.” Joy.

Facebook is arguably the most popular social networking site on teh ‘nets right now. Formerly known as “the ‘cleaned-up’ version of Myspace,” (according to quite a few Pieces of Flair that used to circulate, and I’m paraphrasing) Facebook has grown and come into its own as one of the more widely-used networking sites.

The concept of Facebook on Xbox 360 sounds a tad lame, but the presentation demonstrated by Felicia Day, and actually generated quite a buzz among the SG writer’s present. The layout for your FB page will now look similar to the XBL menu, and allow you to share your photos with your friends. Friends’ updates will be shown on the Dashboard, This may sound a bit ho-hum, but Microsoft has added a great way to up the ante—now you can not only share your Gamerscore more readily, but you can also take in-game photos of what you’re doing and upload them to your Facebook page to share with your friends via a new app called Facebook Connect.

The last-gen consoles were known as “PC’s that only do games,” but we’re slowly beginning to see that gap growing more and more narrow as time goes on.