A blog service by Microsoft

Friday, Dec. 3 2004 | Author: barbutti

Our friends at MSN released a new blog service called MSN Space to accompany the new version of MSN Messenger (which is on public beta stage). The service will support comments, trackbacks, stats and direct posting from camera phones.

The way things are moving, in ten years Microsoft will control the world, Bill Gates will be the president of the United States and there will definitely be a galaxy named after the Redmond company (like Chuck Palahniuk suggests on Fight Club).

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3 Responses for "A blog service by Microsoft"

Dylan

December 3rd, 2004 at 12:51 pm
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I posted about this on my blog too. From a technical standpoint, it’s atrocious. It doesn’t even come close to validating against any kind of standard. It doesn’t even output a doctype. In my blog, I ranted about Michael Connolly’s “space”. He’s a group manager for MSN Spaces. I pointed out that his ONE ENTRY BLOG took up 122k and that I could take a screenshot that took up less space. And I did:

http://mboffin.com/stuff/mikes-space.jpg

The themes are horrible. The backgrounds are short and if you have more than a two-entry blog, or several things in your sidebar, the background just stops and your site keeps going.

Also, the Terms of Service are unreal. As stated in the TOS, Microsoft basically owns anything you post INCLUDING YOUR PHOTOS and can do whatever they please with what you post. It’s in total contrast to Blogger, where they explicitly state that you own all content you post to Blogger.

I read somewhere a great description of what it will probably end up being in the near future: A new Geocities with thousands upon thousands of atrociously designed, dead blogs, started and abandoned by teenagers everywhere, full of useless content.
Rob

December 3rd, 2004 at 4:42 pm
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Yeah, I tried using h2’s and such in my blog entry, but it strips them out. No doc types, no custom styles, very little semantic markup, blah. Of course, the thought of someone who knows how to code using M$ for their blogging is pretty far-fetched.

I guess you can always have fun on M$’s bandwith. Start up a pro-firefox blog. It will make you feel a little better. Here’s mine:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/firefoxbrowser/

As a side thought that’s waaaay of topic, if thousands (hundreds of thousands,millions?) of people linked to Firefox with “Microsoft” as the link text, would it push our friendly fuzzy browser to the top of the Google list?
andrew

December 3rd, 2004 at 8:27 pm
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Whoa… did FG just link to Slashdot?

Spaces can be summed up in one word: fugly.