Microsoft Service lets you creat a nice blog, but limits tweaking
Wall Street Journal
April 21, 2005, b1
"Microsoft has just launched its own blogging service, called MSN Spaces (spaces.msn.com). ...Microsoft says it already has more than seven million blogs in Spaces, and is adding new ones at a rate of over 100,000 a day."
"The blogs you create in MSN Spaces can be open to as many or as few people as you choose. You can set your blog to be viewable by anyone, or only by contacts in your MSN Messenger instant messaging program, or only by a list of people you select from your MSN address book. People wishing to add comments must have a free Microsoft Passport sign-in ID. You can also turn off the commenting feature.
Each blog entry can include text, Web links and photos. Spaces has a very nice photo-album feature that lets users view slide shows. It allows you to store 30 megabytes of pictures on your blog, or about 750 images after compression.
You can also post lists of favorite songs to your MSN blog. Users who click on the songs are taken to Microsoft's online music store, where they can hear clips or buy the tunes, if they are available (some of the obscure Red Sox-related songs in my music list aren't). You can also post lists of related Web sites, books and other things."
"However, in typical Microsoft fashion, Spaces works best when you use Internet Explorer in Windows. For instance, unless you use Internet Explorer in Windows, you can't make your text bold or italic or colored. You can't turn words you enter into Web links. And you can't create separate paragraphs in your entries.
Also, users of Internet Explorer in Windows get a much nicer interface for uploading photos. And viewers of your blog get a richer experience as well by using Internet Explorer in Windows: They see an automated photo slide show in a small window. On the Mac or with other Windows browsers, the slide show must be manually launched."
April 21, 2005, b1
"Microsoft has just launched its own blogging service, called MSN Spaces (spaces.msn.com). ...Microsoft says it already has more than seven million blogs in Spaces, and is adding new ones at a rate of over 100,000 a day."
"The blogs you create in MSN Spaces can be open to as many or as few people as you choose. You can set your blog to be viewable by anyone, or only by contacts in your MSN Messenger instant messaging program, or only by a list of people you select from your MSN address book. People wishing to add comments must have a free Microsoft Passport sign-in ID. You can also turn off the commenting feature.
Each blog entry can include text, Web links and photos. Spaces has a very nice photo-album feature that lets users view slide shows. It allows you to store 30 megabytes of pictures on your blog, or about 750 images after compression.
You can also post lists of favorite songs to your MSN blog. Users who click on the songs are taken to Microsoft's online music store, where they can hear clips or buy the tunes, if they are available (some of the obscure Red Sox-related songs in my music list aren't). You can also post lists of related Web sites, books and other things."
"However, in typical Microsoft fashion, Spaces works best when you use Internet Explorer in Windows. For instance, unless you use Internet Explorer in Windows, you can't make your text bold or italic or colored. You can't turn words you enter into Web links. And you can't create separate paragraphs in your entries.
Also, users of Internet Explorer in Windows get a much nicer interface for uploading photos. And viewers of your blog get a richer experience as well by using Internet Explorer in Windows: They see an automated photo slide show in a small window. On the Mac or with other Windows browsers, the slide show must be manually launched."
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