Skip to Content

Free TUAW iPhone app -- try it now!
AOL Tech

windowslivespaces posts

Filed under: Design, Internet, Windows, Blogging, Web services, Social Software

Windows Live Spaces gets a facelift

Windowsby Emily Price Apr 21st 2007

Windows Live Spaces launched some new features yesterday turning the site into more of a social networking site than the pure blogging/homepage site it once was.

The newness starts with a new homepage design that keeps you up-to-date with changes in your friends pages. In addition to the basic homepage changes users can now send personal messages back and forth as well as add a guest book to their page that allows other users to leave photos and videos as comments.

For those who want to add a little more flair to their Live Space the site has added more customizable options for pages allowing you to incorporate personal photos into your page design or choose from built-in templates. Photo albums also received a slight upgrade; allowing you to view all of your photo albums on the same page.

Microsoft is getting serious about Web 2.0, and only 2 full years behind the rest of the world. Way to go Redmond!

[Via TechCrunch]

Tags: bloggings, social networking, SocialNetworking, windows, windows live spaces, WindowsLiveSpaces

Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Microsoft

Is Windows Live (MSN) Spaces the world's biggest blogging service?

by Jordan Running Aug 21st 2006

Windows Live SpacesAccording 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.
  1. Have original content. Spam blogs that are copied off of somewhere else don't count.
  2. Have at least 500 words of new text-based content every month. Things that look like Flickr streams aren't blogs, sorry.
  3. Have at least two posts in at least the past 30 days. If you aren't posting, you're not blogging.
  4. I don't care if you have comments, have trackbacks, have blogrolls, or any of that."
That seems pretty reasonable to me, but many of the commenters disagree. But Scoble is soldiering on, setting out to collect some data on what Microsoft is counting as a blog. His first sample isn't very promising, with only 2% of the recently-updated "blogs" meeting his criteria. Microsoft's Mike Torres piped up on the original post to tell Scoble his methodology is flawed, because over half of all Spaces are private, to which Scoble replies that a private blog isn't a blog at all. So, who's full of what, here? Is Microsoft blowing up its numbers to inflate its ad rates (or something else?), or is it Scoble whose ego is out of control and who's picking on the low-hanging fruit?

Tags: blogging, blogs, microsoft, msnspaces, Robert Scoble, RobertScoble, spaces, windowslive, windowslivespaces

Filed under: Fun, Windows, Web services, Microsoft, Social Software

Windows Live Spaces launches, succeeds MSN Spaces

Windowsby Jordan Running Aug 2nd 2006

Windows Live Spaces

Last night Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft's shiny new successor to MSN Spaces, was launched. All old MSN Spaces blogs now redirect to their new Windows Live Spaces URLs. Apart from a newer, slicker interface and home page, the biggest new features in Windows Live Spaces are the friends module and--you guessed it--gadgets, a.k.a. widgets. The friends module is Microsoft's stab at social networking, and has the distinct advantage of being integrated with MSN/Windows Live Messenge, allowing you to navigate your Live Spaces friends, and their friends, inside Live Messenger. Gadgets are integrated with Live.com, meaning you can have the same gadgets on your MSN Space as you do on your Live.com personalized home page. As with many of Microsoft's new Live tools, I'm pretty impressed with the features and polish of Windows Live Spaces. They have a lot of work before truly competing with MySpace, but it's a start.

Tags: microsoft, msn, msnspaces, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, spaces, windowslive, windowslivespaces, wls

Featured Time Waster

The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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, ...

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff
Adobe Lightroom 1.1

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

Most Commented On (7 days)

Recent Comments

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio