stolen of course it would be rude not too

http://www.majornelson.com/

lists any new content on the marketplace and major news items along with weekly podcasts of Xbox info.

http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/

A cool feature brought in a couple of months ago is the integration with sign in using your passport account and on the My Xbox tab you can manage your friends and messages - its where I approved your friends request

http://forums.xbox.com/

The forums at ^^^^^^^ *can* give you some decent info if you can get past the teenagers and their UK/US rivalries

thanks PVG for you info cheques in the post ..