Looks good but i'm definitely not puting my real name or picture on there. I like the mobile app though, much more of an improvement to what it is now.

Also, how many friends can we have now? I noticed in one of the screenshots, the guy had 124 friends. The current limit is 100, at least until PS4 comes out. 

Looks much improved over the PS3 UI. A bit of a Win8 knock off, but that's not a bad thing as far as I'm concerned

I believe, as with Xbox LIVE, amongst your friends, your real name will be used.  But to the general public, only your gamertag/user ID.

The 2nd one looks exactly like the 360 dashboard before last year's update.

I love the Vita's OS, I even prefer it to the XMB!

Clean, I like it.

Excuse my ignorance, but have there always been ads on XBox Live?  This kind of seems like a slap in the face to people paying for the service if these appear on Gold members' pages.  I get ads/links to marketplace or PS Store items, but generic targeted ads like you'd see on the web?

There have been ads since the first update to Xbox LIVE after the release of the Xbox 360.

When Microsoft added the Marketplace blade in the orignal UI, they added advertisements.  Generally they were content related, but occasionally when a promotion was happening they may have been third-party promotions.  I think with the NXE they added true advertisements (non-content/non-promotional).  However, with the Xbox One they have said there will be no ads on the Home screen, which you can see in the original post. 

The Home screen on the Xbox One features promotional content, either based on what you play, what your friends are playing, or what is popular on Xbox LIVE.  Similar to the What's New screen on the PS4.

Thanks for the clarification.  Sounds like they're going in the right direction going forward.  I've always been fine with the "What's New" section on PlayStation.

It's better than it was under the NXE.  Under the NXE you could end up with more than one ad under a channel.  I personally don't have a problem with the ads however.  Some I click on, some I don't.  There is this amazing ability I have, the ability to ignore things that aren't important to me and most importantly to notice the things that are important to me.

Where do I post most often?  In threads about hardware and systems.  Where do I post least often?  In threads about games.  I ignore a lot of content here on VGChartz, only to post in a few threads per day.  It's an amazing ability of focus.

I personally never have understood the outcry over the ads.  Especially when you consider, if you subscribe to a TV service, what do you get?  Ads encouraging you to subscribe to the services you already have, for a price you can't take advantage of, because you're already a customer!  Had they been content ads, which the majority of Microsoft's are, and not services ads or worse 4 minute third-party ads, I'd have less of a problem with TV providers.  I don't even mind the ads on Hulu. 

Ads can be both informative and entertaining, and if you understand the psychology behind advertising they can also be interesting.  The problem aren't ads.  The problem is how overwhelming they can be.  For instance, if TV advertising was limited to one 60 second or two 30 second advertisements, I don't think anyone would complain about ads.  If you bumped it up to 120 seconds total with two 60 second or up to four 30 second ads, I still don't think the majority of people would mind.  But it's when they went to four or five minutes worth of advertising that things kind of went off the rocker.  A 60 minute program in the US on average has about 18 minutes of commercials.  A 30 minute program 7 minutes.  That's 30% and 23% of the viewing time, respectively.

So, am I troubled by an ad that does nothing unless I highlight or select it?  No.  Not at all, because I have the outrageously superhuman power to ignore it. 

The question is however, now that Sony is charging users to pay to play multiplayer games, will gamers be upset too that they're forced to have advertisements?  Or now that Sony is charging for PSN and displaying advertisements, is it ok?

I'm curious of how hypocritical Playstation gamers actually are, and I think it's a fair thing to be curious of.  There were a lot of Playstation gamers that voiced their opinion about Xbox LIVE's subscription service and advertisements.  Now that Sony is following suit with PSN and shoe-horning multiplayer gaming into PS+ I wonder now if those who cried out that Microsoft was committing an atrocity by featuring ads on their service, will feel the same way about Sony with PSN?