Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Microsoft
Is Windows Live (MSN) Spaces the world's biggest blogging service?
According to Richard MacManus, Windows Live General Manager George Moore told an audience at Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference in New Zealand yesterday that Windows Live Spaces (formerly MSN Spaces) is "now the largest blogging service on the planet," and his assertion is causing a bit of a stir. Microsoft says there are 72 million Spaces in existence, but former Microsoftie Robert Scoble says maybe that's so, but are they really all blogs? Scoble says no, and outlines his idea of what makes and doesn't make blog. "First, let's define what a blog is, at least enough to count for this purpose.- Have original content. Spam blogs that are copied off of somewhere else don't count.
- Have at least 500 words of new text-based content every month. Things that look like Flickr streams aren't blogs, sorry.
- Have at least two posts in at least the past 30 days. If you aren't posting, you're not blogging.
- I don't care if you have comments, have trackbacks, have blogrolls, or any of that."
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
