Microsoft does it again!
Seems Microsoft is jumping on the blogging bandwagon. They’ve created a new thing called MSN Spaces. It’s a personle website, come blog, come online photo gallery, etc. Seems to be pretty customisable from the quick look I had the other day, but you’re limited to the themes that are provided (and most of them are pretty cheesey – typical MS stuff).
It’s free to join, just login with your passport and away you go. You are limited to 10MB of storage (like a Hotmail account). You can also limit the visibility of your space to be public, or only visible to people on your Messenger Allow list. Interesting, but not particularly useful from my point of view.
One nice feature is you can configure your Space to allow posting from your mobile device via email. Not a new feature as far as blogs go (Blogger can do this), but useful none the less. (Personally I much prefer the PocketBlog client that uses the Blogger api, but that’s just me). You can syndicate your Space’s blog (as you would expect) using RSS 2.0 and your blog can have categories to classify your blog posts (nice).
The big downside for Spaces is the fact you can’t customise the theme, or upload your own. You are stuck with the MS looking site. Yuk! Ah well, looks like I’ll be staying with Blogger for a while (even without categories).
Check out more here and here’s my test Space if you’re interested.
