From the Live Mesh blog:

Thank you for using the Live Mesh for Mobile client! For users who saw a fail­ure to add their mobile phone to their mesh, we have deployed an updated build of Live Mesh for Mobile. You will need to down­load the Mobile Installer from http://m.mesh.com/install/wm6/LiveMesh.cab again. Once you have the new installer on your phone, run it and the installed client will be upgraded to the new ver­sion. The new Mobile Live Mesh Client is ver­sion num­ber 0.9.3424.6 (check this through Menu -> About). Now you can start Live Mesh, sign in, and you should be good to go.

Sure enough, I installed it on my Treo this morn­ing, was able to log in and start sync­ing fold­ers. Synced fold­ers can be on inter­nal mem­ory or the stor­age card, and open up in File Explorer when you click on them. Every­thing is editable just like any­thing else on your device. By default Live Mesh syncs your device with the mesh every 30 min­utes, but you can change this if you need to.

My part­ner in crime on Max­i­mum Geek wasn’t so lucky, though. He was told that there were a lim­ited num­ber of allowed users and was unable to reg­is­ter his device with the ser­vice. Now does that mean there’s a lim­ited num­ber of peo­ple who can con­nect at any one time, or that there’s a user cap on this beta? Let me know in the com­ments if you can get it working.

On the whole, very impressed so far. This is going to help enor­mously with NaNoW­riMo, which starts tonight at the stroke of midnight!

Live Mesh for Win­dows Mobile is offi­cially avail­able. Only it doesn’t work. Maybe.

Since rolling out the lat­est Live Mesh release this after­noon, a num­ber of cus­tomers have reported trou­ble installing the Live Mesh for Mobile soft­ware. We have iden­ti­fied the prob­lem and are cur­rently work­ing on a new build. We don’t yet have an esti­mated time of avail­abil­ity, but we will post updates here, on the blog, as we know more.

In the mean­time, please do not try to install the Live Mesh for Mobile soft­ware on your mobile phone because instal­la­tion will fail in most cases.

So watch this space for more info. I’m going to install it any­way and see if I luck out, but I obvi­ously don’t rec­om­mend this. Yet. I think.

Back in April when we did the ini­tial tech pre­view release of Live Mesh we empha­sized a vision for how the offer­ing would bring together your world of devices – a start­ing point to deliver on the data, devices, and peo­ple aspects of our vision. With this beta release we are mak­ing another sig­nif­i­cant step toward this goal. In par­tic­u­lar… with this Beta we are pro­vid­ing lim­ited avail­abil­ity of our new Mac and Win­dows Mobile 6 clients – pro­vid­ing users with a wider range of devices that can par­tic­i­pate in their mesh. Later this week as the beta rolls out, access to the Mac client will be pro­vided from the device ring expe­ri­ence at www.mesh.com. Instruc­tions for access­ing the Win­dows Mobile client will be made avail­able at this blog later in the week.

Live Mesh : Wel­come to Beta

This is the miss­ing piece (well, that and a OneNote Mobile that isn’t totally lame) of my mobile data strat­egy. I’ve been using Live Mesh for months, first just my desk­top to the web, then my desk­top through the web to my net­book and back. Just like my Exchange data, I’m secure that any­thing I change in once place will be the same every­where else I access it.

The free­dom this gives me is hard to explain. For my Exchange data, email, cal­en­dar, con­tacts and tasks, it doesn’t mat­ter if I use my desk­top, my net­book or my Treo to access any of it. I’ll use whatever’s most con­ve­nient at the time. I’m writ­ing this post on my desk­top at home because I’m get­ting ready to pod­cast, but I could just as eas­ily post it on my net­book from Chipo­tle (where there is, alas, no WiFi, so I have to tether to the EVDO con­nec­tion on my Treo), or from Mobile Pos­tIt on my Treo lying on the couch. My data is com­pletely inde­pen­dent from the device I hap­pen to use to access it. And now I’ll have the same free­dom with edit­ing doc­u­ments, spread­sheets, sync­ing music and videos to my Treo that I have with my other computers.

This is gonna be big.