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Microsoft Launches Blogging Site
Jeff Clark writes "In yet another attempt to take over all of the Internet, MSN has launched a blog service called MSN Spaces with the new version of MSN Messenger due out shortly. Features include comments, stats and trackbacks just like every other blog out there. Another built-in feature is also available where you can send pictures from your camera-phone directly to your Space. Now you can let Mom know just exactly what happened at that party last night!" Reader JDBaker adds, "Microsoft have released the first public beta of MSN Messenger 7. It can be downloaded direct from Microsoft, and carries the same build number as the recent private beta release. New features include: Winks, Set Status Before Login, Drag and Drop Backgrounds and Feedback."
Animated smilies that make noise. The illiterates at my school are gonna be overjoyed at the prospect. I'm just going to be annoyed.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
That MS will bundle this with the next version of Windows, thus going up against LiveJournal and taking a large percentage of the new bloggers with it.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
Another new feature of the MSN beta that the article fails to mention is it's un-godly amount of bloat.
Seriously, does anyone really need the Nudge function? To all those of you who don't use MSN (whom I hold the deepest respect for, btw), all Nudge does is shake your window and the recipients window in some weird kind of internet seizure.
Looks like I'm going to migrate back to IRC.
Prontab.net - Porn for geeks. (nsfw)
Is there a blog that allows u to have private areas (requiring login)? I mean to use it like a diary?
No. I'm not a fourteen year old girl, I'm an old Korean.
From clicking on the link, you can also visit some of the "recently updated Spaces" (Spaces, heh). My blog is plain as a loaf of bread, sure. But at least it looks semi-original. Maybe they'll add some "skins", with an equally original twist on the name for them.
VOTE!
They forgot to include the ability to have your system come to a crawl at an even faster pace with quicker ad and spam delivery
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was reading through the list of things Microsoft were adding, thinking that it's just another place Google are at already, then I realised that while there's Gmail, there's no Gmessenger or similar as far as I'm aware.
:-)
How long do you reckon before Google launches such a thing, potentially pushing MSN Messenger out the market?
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
How about, "In yet another attempt to make the Internet relevant to the average person?" Why is this a laudable goal for everybody but Microsoft to strive towards?
To have a one-stop shop for communication is pretty much what it's all about. E-mail, instant messaging, fax, voice, photos, movies, TV, radio, and the blog (considered to be the future of websites) converging in a simple-to-use way. This should be something to look forward to.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
... and failed.
Great. MS making it easier for another swathe of barely litterate nobodies to spout off uninformed bollocks on the internet. Not like erm, us... erm. Bugger. *gets coat*
I've just took a look at MSN spaces. It's interface to create the weblog and change its layout is interesting and very easy to use. But my main concern is that it is very limiting. You can't edit the template in the way you can do it like in Blogger (which is now owned by Google). In blogger you can edit the HTML file that is the template of your weblog and this gives you the control on EVERYTHING but in MSN spaces you can just play with the layout of predefined "module" but can't really change the code behind. Also, it seems the total space allocated to each weblog is very small (10MB). Plase notice that it also includes the space for the photos and "music" so you can imagine you can't expect much from it. The other problem is that there is no support for internationalization: you can't create a chines, korean, arabic, persian... blog! You can't change the stylesheets to support RTL paragraphs etc. All in all, it's nice, but very limited. It's like comparing the notepad to Ultra-Edit....
MS is trying to do it again. They're trying to break down any barriers to setting up a blog. Great. Now I can be chastized for not reading my 8 year old cousin's blog, or even better, my 90 year old grandmother's.
What happened to the days when there was SOME barrier to entry, that at least made you put a LITTLE thought and energy into feeling important enough that people should read your every thought?
"...now you can let Mom know just exactly what happened at that party last night!" How many people are going to tell their mom what happened at the party last night? O.o I mean, that was between me and that blond chick, and only because we were drunk...
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Quite personally, I prefer spending $50 a year on a Custom DNS and my own private domain than putting my stuff on anyone elses server.
What I do is this:
1) Go get a Custom DNS from DynDNS.org.
2) Go get a Domain Name from a selection of many different registrars.
3) Go set up a box running Gentoo, Debian, SuSE, or FreeBSD, and install Apache.
And then boom. I'm the master of my own domain, for the low-low price of $50 per year. thats an average of $4 a month for hosting, totally within your control.
I can even give subdomains to the people I like, considering if I have enough bandiwdth. But that isn't a problem considering many Canadian ISP's offer over 800kbps upstream.
"Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more."
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
I'm surprised Google didn't beat them to the punch on this one... Who will take over the Internet first? Microsoft or Google?
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
Hell, perhaps it's a good thing, let all the people realize that they are NOT Drudge or Maddox with this service, and then maybe this new buzzword in our vocabulary will settle back down once this project reaches post-apex and fades back into obscurity.
You gotta make something explode to really understand it...examine all those tiny particles while they're still on fire.
wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?
Removing the web browser from the blogging equation, or at least extending the "blogosphere" to go beyond the usual web browser and RSS formats sounds cool. I don't use Messenger, but incorporating IM'ing with blogging just sounds like a really good idea. It seems like one of those "why didn't anyone think of this before" ideas.
I wonder if it would be hard to incorporate RSS into Kopete or Gaim and then have it interface with blogspot (or whatever) so that you could submit entries and manage your blog, and blog buddy (blogs which are friends of your blog, or whatever) network from your IM client. You could also tie a person's blog to their IM entry, opening up more possibilities.
That way you could have similar functionality as this new MS toy, but without the need to be tied to any particular blog host. You could then, conceivably, have plugins that go to blogspot, Google's blog thing, some other blog host, etc. (Yeah, actually I don't do blogs too much, I can't think of the names of too many blog hosting sites)
To me, this sounds like the Right way to go.
WARNING: DO NOT LET DR. MARIO TOUCH YOUR GENITALS. HE IS NOT A REAL DOCTOR.
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MSN chat is subscription now too.
So, the blog thing makes sense for MS.
Ont the internet, the technically 'sophisticated' user is the exception Most people want to talk about their interests, which are not computer tech. They want to hang out with other mole hunters, gold fish swallowers, 18th century French lit enthusiasts, etc. IMO this is going to be a great success for microsoft.
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If it hasn't been proven to you by now, nothing should be. It doesn't matter who you are, or what your product is. If you are in the IT industry, the amount of time before Microsoft attempts to replace you is limited. Their first attempt may not be good, and may not succeed. But either way, if you are in software development, your time is marked. Some day Microsoft WILL come for you. And when they do, they will do so with no concern as to profit, or as to whether it makes business sense, or anything else. They will do it just to leave themselves as the only viable player in the market. And once they start, they will keep trying until they succeed.
This is why in the long run, Open Source is the only viable way to develop software. Not because open source is inherently better than commercial/proprietary software development; just because Microsoft has made commercial software development unsustainable.
Well, I do! It reminds me of my first days in college before my memory was fr...
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What was I talking about?
Must be all the free beer from NOAA.
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error: only superusers can mount volumes.
Microsoft, being thier usual innovative self have brought us a new version of an IM client, and a new DNS to atatch to our blogs.
*IF* it comes with XyZ mb's of image hosting, then ok, might be a good service, but for now seems like a catch-up-quick. Plus it needs one of these passport things, I tried placing mine up on the screen, but it ain't having it, maybe the picture is too old.
Passports, pah. Anyone remember the wallet service?
In Korea, Only Old People Use Hotmail.
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
When I try to hit any of the recently updated or new blogs - the page times out...
superusers? you mean like cocaine?
New features include: Winks, Set Status Before Login, Drag and Drop Backgrounds and Feedback.
And, as been mentiond, a huge amount of bloat. Plus 'buy emoticons', 'backgrounds', 'winks' etc spam littered throughout the program with direct links to MS sites to buy shitty little pictures which you can get for free. The "for sale" emoticons are more prominently placed and larger and in the way than the emoticons you actually use. The whole thing is just a way to sell that crap. A blantent sell out.
I.O.U One Sig.
lol. Check out the "wtf is blog?" entry lol.
Why the links to "every other blog"? Those are not blog sites, just links to blogging software. More appropriate links would have been to sites like these.
AnimeNEXT anime convention
And most importantly:
(Actually, I'm sure she is lovely and I would be a very lucky man indeed if I knew her, but the opportunity for humour is too great)
Hi, my name is Rob, and I'm a Linux advoc*$#*&^ NO CARRIER ^^^^^^^^^^^^
HELLO. MY NAME IS ROB AND I AM A MICROSOFT ADVOCATE.
[insert MSN advertisments here]
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
This is what businesses do: they attempt to gain control of as many markets as possible, and it's becoming clear that blogging is a new market. Argue against the quality of the software, point out that Microsoft seems to be lacking in innovative new ideas, argue that people really shouldn't try to make money from the internet, claim that customers might get better products by having companies specialise in providing only a few really good services rather than having fingers in thousands of pies, but don't bitch against Microsoft for doing what profit-making companies try to do, which is be involved in whole markets as the best way to get rid of competition and therefore the best way to make money.
I wonder if there will be moderation of blogs. If for example, I create a vehemently anti-Microsoft blog (possibly one that borders on slander), will the block/censor it? How does this work on other blogs?
I think the question is more valid for Microsoft's blog service because there are more anti-Microsoft people than anti-Google people (or whatever). And many of the anti-Microsoft people would find it cute or ironic to post an anti-Microsoft blog on Microsoft's own servers.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
Innovate?
t io n
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Innova
innovation Audio pronunciation of "Innovation" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-vshn)
n.
1. The act of introducing something new.
2. Something newly introduced.
New idea - I don't think so.
The first funny post in this discussion is marked as redundant. I applaud mods.
BlogIM has allowed you to update your blog via IM for ages.
(Although the site is a tad stalled. And it remains, as is famously the case for all the author's projects, about 2 weeks from true completion).
0daymeme.com: Great stuff.
"Note: With the latest version of Internet Explorer you can take advantage of richer customization options." is the message it shows when I use firefox. Slick m$. Slick. Although.. in all honesty, when I read that, I did think.. "hm...maybe I SHOULD dust off good ol' IE and see how it looks.."
It's called competition. They aren't buying out existing services and squashing smaller providers (well, yet)
Note that I don't particualarly care about MS in any way, really. But article text like this makes the editors look childish and less credible, which is a disservice to the comunity.
Another case of "Anything you can do I can do better...though not necessarily as securely" from M$. Say it with me, kids, Microsoft is to software as Satan is too????
Do Microsoft have any standards when it comes to (X)HTML documents? they use single quotes, double quotes, and no-quotes to delimit HTML attributes, indentation ranges from tabs, to spaces, to none at all, and CSS ranges from being specified in-line tag attributes, to being specified inside style tags, to including it from an external file. And their span ridden excuse for semantics certainly is not XHTML compliant.
If they can't unify simple HTML documents, how the hell the they organize code for an entire OS? Oh yeah, that's right, they don't.
The only new feature I want to see is for MSN Messenger to stop fargin using IE even though I set my default browser to Firefox!
Even if I setup a new computer for someone and hide IE, and insteall Firefox, the minute they hit that damn "x new messages" email popup in Messenger, they're using IE and the viri/spyware starts rolling in.
but you are guaranteed to get fucked! woooo!
I use blogger and don't care to change. why would I, it's too much hassle.
... /. haxors m$oft.
:D
When are we going to see something truely new from MicroSoft? After all they have one of the world's largest R&D labs which is well-respected at academic conferences. Yet commercially all we hear is one copycat prodcut after another, back to the beginning years of MS.
You can use my creation, ourdoings.com, in this way by only saving drafts, not publishing. If you want to share drafts with a few others, you can authorize them as contributors to your blog.
If you want to differentiate your blog, focus on content. Express your real-life experience as effectively as you can. When you start to run out of interesting content, that's when it's time to focus on skins.
They've failed in the personal-mp3-player area but good luck watching video on the web [i]anywhere[/i] anymore without a copy of windows media player. Which means if you're not a windows user good luck watching video on the internet, because WMP for mac is a horribly broken piece of software.
Oh, MSN started blog service, wait a minuts. thay start beta Aug. this year in japan MSN Japan and the English version is still in beta?
At lease I have not seen BETA in Japanese version.
I've heard that Yahoo BB will start their blog service next year and it WILL be more powerful than MSN's.
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As if the "internet-generaton" isn't full enough of themselves, why dear $deity are blogs so bloody popular?
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I just don't get it. If you are so self-absorbed that you feel the need to publish every thought & whim about yourself on the web (as if the anybody on the planet actually cared about you), how/why would you then go searching for and reading other peoples mutterings?
As a previous person stated, there used to be a barrier to entry that prevented a lot of this drivel from poluting the electrons; but alas now it's easy to whine and pout in public.
I think Fight Club got it right: "You are not a beautiful & unique butterfly." We are faulty-carbon units that need a swift kick in the ass more then we are getting.
People please, get over yourselves. * If you agree with anything that I have stated here, please come to my blog at http://blah.blah/ at sign my guestbook! **
*PS: I was not refering to any of the beautiful butterflies that visit
**PPS: For the humour impaired - I was joking
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
I use my own blogging site myself to keep family and friends updated. Thanks to User-Mode Linux hosting, I can keep it going even if I end up being the only user. Currently it's used by 5 households total, all people I know, but it's open to anyone who will pay $6/month. I'm not going to stop adding worthwhile features because I use it myself. Here are some of the worthwhile features already there:
I'm not done putting in features, and I'm not going away.
There's a feature missing from that list that's quite a terrible omission - "break all 3rd party MSN clients - again."
How often do they release without that gem of a feature? Hell, they even enhance and update it between releases!
In fairness, they're quite within their rights in doing so, but you'd think they'd break 3rd party clients PROPERLY if they were going to, eg require TLS with the right client cert. That way, third party products would have to bundle a cert that the MSN license said was only licensed for use with MSN. I suspect their legal ground would then be rather shakier (but then again, so would MS's anti-trust status).
Like a PnP journal, it will be nice to go back and see some of the things that interested me in 10,20 hopefully 50 years. The benefit to having it online is that I could post/read from my phone if I wanted to.
Personally, i'm not a 'phone talker'... So friends and family (whom most of which I live a great distance from) can login, see whats going on and see some recent pictures of our adventures.
Now saying that, I wish my blog had a 'private' area where I could post some of my thoughts.. Those damn web crawlers pick up on everything!! You can't really make a post about the new co-op student if your wife's mom is reading the site!
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
Now all the lamers are going to be doing backflips at this; noisy animated smileys, "nudges", even more gay features. Why people think this is great, I do not know. The last version of Messenger that was actually an acceptable IM client, as far as MSN goes, was v5.0.
When on Windows I get constantly bombarded with whining from people, "omg u have 2 get the new messenger it is kool man wit all the new featurez an shit!!!1". No thanks.
God bless Bitlbee, CenterICQ and, to a lesser extent, Trillian Pro. Now if only Trillian Pro supported keeping all your message sessions in a single tabbed window, I would be a happy man.
Well, sure, if you want to call "architecture design" a feature.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Regardless of the fact of whether or not I would actually use this blogging service, it is slightly annoying to see that a crafty 32 year old asian guy has managed to get 'my' spaces account before me. What I mean by this is, you log into the spaces website by using your passport (ex: fred@hotmail.com) and then you choose an extension for your blogs site (ex: if I was fred@hotmail.com I would want spaces.msn.com/members/fred) only to find that someone (probably fred328) has stolen the one linked to your email address. This makes me sad.
microsoft are looking for more product (you) to sell to their advertisers and their curerewnt portfolio isnt delivering a ROI
viewing source on their site and witnessing the mess of link tracking and webbugs and cookies with guid's makes MSN's network nothing more than a marketing and advertising machine designed to extract as much information from visitors as it can
You're doomed! Doomed! Soon they will also expect you to get an email subscription to receive their blog entries and photos every day.
It amazes me how many people STILL use the glaringly inadequate and annoying MSN Messenger service, when there is much better competition available.
:)
Every new version of MSN adds more stupid useless widgets while ignoring the fact that the underlying protocol is a pile of shite. But of course the newbies fucking love it, which means everyone else has to follow suit. Ta, Microsoft.
Mind you, I am the writer of this so I might be a lil biased
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
I'll see your MSN Spaces, and raise you some free wordpress hosting.
Weee!
The knee-jerk reaction might be a "huh-huh! MS sucks goats, Beavis!", but anything to add to the, ahem, blogosphere is probably a good thing for us all. 99% of it will be dross, but a handfull of good writing-type people (ie, not me) will appear on MSN Spaces, and we'll all be better for it.
Maybe.
Anyone knows if the new beta will finally allow one to locally rename its contacts, like you can with ICQ, for example?
I use Messenger for work communications, and it annoys the heck out of me that I have to live with whatever the other person decided to set their screen name this morning
So i had some free time on my hands and fiddled with this new MS stuff. I wonder what they're upto with this:
MSN Toolbar/options/ popup guard settings / tab allow list/ http://betavideo.my.msn.com
????
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."- Friedrich Nietzsche
Seems to me that Blogger is already taking over the blog space. It seems that MS is a day late and a dollar short in this arena. MS seems doesn't seem to compete very well in the Internet arena (outside of Explorer, and people are now discovering the Firefox is a much better browser). Once you have a blog, its hard to switch blog providers. http://fromthemorning.blogspot.com/
[FromTheMorning]
Yeah, screw them and their new products! If only they would stop releasing any product the world would be such a better place.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
While MSN is much nicer to look at and is much more responsive than ICQ, I am amazed that even with this new release, there is *still* no ability to locally rename contacts. You have to view your list by email address or "Display Name", which is something your contact sets and you cannot change. This results in some very unreadable contact lists, as people throw presence information (or other random messages) into their Display Name.
It's nice to know that somebody on my list hates the holidays, but I really wish i didn't have to hover over their display "name" to see their email address, and then figure out who that address belongs to just to see who it is! Really, renaming your contacts is not a feature that should require an add-on.
Yup. Let's search Msn Spaces and see who's actually writing a blog which includes the word 'Microsoft'.
Guess what? It searches with beta.search.msn.com and you guys'll never find out the answer..
Then again, it has _blank targets on links... come on, I know how to middle click something..
Then again you have to remember the password to the dotnet passport.. which I havent' used for years..
That's enough reviewing, passons
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In fact Microsoft seems to have been interested in leveraging superior knowledge against the average person. Actually they use business knowlege against people with technical backgrounds, too.
Pilot = Manager
Office dweller = Engineer
"send pictures from your camera-phone directly to your Space. Now you can let Mom know just exactly what happened at that party last night!"
I don't think its going to be MOM who gets the picture. Get the picture? The party last night is going to be the peep show and the participants were unaware (and unpaid.)
And of course there will be something about it which makes it incompatible with the published standard but still work with M$ media center.
I used to think: "There ought to be a law."
Then I found out there was.
Then I saw how it was applied.
I'm gonna go out and post copyright violations and unsustecting teen porn pics on the M$ blogs because if they apply that law (its slander, libel, calunmny) like they did the anti-tust one, I'm laughing, mate.
MSBPodcast.com The opinions expressed here are my own. If you don't like 'em... Think up your own stuff.
Thanks to space.microsoft.com, I present to you Microsoft-Sucks.
...i'm going to say that i like it! ;)
but that is probably because i haven't fully explorered the options and, contrary to slashdot membership criteria, i actually have friends who _aren't_ geeks. explaining to them why they shouldn't use something that comes with their pc just takes too much effort. besides, i'm too busy plugging the holes in their security settings
Be careful to read the EULA before blogging all your family photos to Microsoft's sight...
You might be loosing a lot more than you are gaining.
Because Myspace screws up all the time and it's slow.
It is like MSN Spaces in that apparently (according to the webmaster) if you have issues, you should be using Windows IE (and everyone else can go screw).
Then all blogs could be littered with posts that simply read:
sup?
The American IT company can payback companies like Microsoft and your former boss who laid you off. How? Join and support Open Source. Help with the quality and support of the software and you will see Microsoft and other such companies loose billions. You will also see your former employer paying you top consulting dollars for you to intergrate open source technologies into the enterprise. Offshoring will not help these companies once the customer base goes to OpenSource. Support Mono,JBoss,OpenOffice, OpenGrouware Apache etc. These technologies can put money into your packet.Join the world in supporting opensource as the defacto standard instead of Microsoft Sun and Oracle
Where's the obligatory neural tap to feed this thing?
when will slashdotters come up with a new criticism of microsoft other than "bah! this isn't innovation!"
Google also has orkut, which is similiar to this service.
First off, MSNblog's competitors are blogger, myspace, friendster, etc. Perhaps even orkut if it wasn't invite only.
MS is just way too late to the game. They'll get their "defaulters," people who never change their homepage, use MSN messenger because its there, etc. So essentailly a community of techno-phobe office workers and kids. This demographic is also chock full of spyware and probably can't keep IE running for more than two minutes without a spyware related crash, so I doubt blogger and friendster are shaking in their boots.
in Korea MSN has already ripped off www.cyworld.com the leading provider of mini hompy.. which just about every single korean person seems to have.. with http://www.msnplus.co.kr/ the MSN mini Hompy site.. microsoft loves stealing ideas
Well give it a few days/months and M$ will either
buy out OR force $MY SPACE out business with some idiotic patent issue........
I'm not saying no features is better, but I'm not certain how many people I'd trust with features like that. Some people can use it effectively, others... not so much. For Instances, how many the "geek" slashdotters forget to close the Italics/bold tags and type the remainder of the their message an annoyingly hard to read font?
My Space is exactly like LiveJournal unless I'm mistaken. It actually used to be uJournal until that went under. Not to try to frighten you or anything, but I'd be cautious about it before you go trusting your life to their databases.
Everyone here, including the poster, forgot one important thing: this is a beta! Things could change in the final release! Errors will happen, bugs will occur. Things will go down.
And I love all this talk about how Microsoft bundles software and is therefore evil. Apple bundles iTunes, iMovie, Safari, Mail, Quicktime, iChat and other programs with OS X. But on the other hand, when Microsoft bundles IE, it's evil. When it bundles media player, it's evil. When it bundles MSN, it's evil.
Well, if they didn't, they'd be seen as having the inferior product (yes, we know all you geeks say XP is the inferior product already...but all the non-geeks will begin to think that too). Right now, in terms of functionality right out of the box, both XP and OS X are basically the same.
As for this, I don't really care much for MSN Spaces, or blogger, or what have you. Microsoft is trying to create a hub for it's users in one place, with hotmail, MSN, blogging, search, all in one place. It's much more fun than managing a different account for everything. Most people don't care that you can't rewrite the HTML code. They just want something where they can type something, post it, and other people can read it with minimal fuss. Basically, something that just works. (And once again, this is still a beta).
I don't really care for all these blog sites or blog software. Writing your own code that does exactly what you want is very easy if you know a little PHP/MySQL (and I know very little). And I'll probably be voted as a troll here just for not being anti-MS. Wee.
The real test is to try it out and create an anti-Microsoft blog.. If it is blocked, it might make a good slashdot topic.
So can we expect a MS patent on blogging here soon?
it sucks and scales like a fish on a barbeque. Oh wait, it's already /.-ed.
When your box is hacked, not only will the hacker get your tax records, passwords, and email, they'll also get all of your thoughts and wishes.
You might as well unlock the front door of your residence.
Thanks Bill.
-- No sig for you!
...is at yafro.com. That nightmare hellshow over there gives you a pretty good idea what combining something like Slashdot (which is really just a glorified blog) with photo capabilities. Which means that you know that MS will censor posts... Yeah. The Internet is sure the "great liberator" of the people. Right.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
About Google. As much as they are an information powerhouse (scary!), I trust them that they aren't going to leave my machine WIDE OPEN TO THE INTERNET!. Implementing a "MSN Messenger" function is gonna be tough. Patents are going to get in the way. But also, security is going to be tough. Instant SPAM is a problem.
I give Google credit for waiting... and maybe NOT putting out a messenging product at all?
One thing about google: They don't seem to want to repeat the mistakes of others. To MS's defense, Google has never built an OS and sold it to the public.
Google has good ideas, and they don't implement them until they have security figured out. In contrast, MS rolls out products and lets the real world figure out security for them. It's cheaper that way, faster to market, and how does it damage their reputation? It doesn't. MS and security are oxymorons.
Wall Street seems to respect MS's behavior, as it adds to the bottom line. Every day we hear about a new security problem, and everyday, MS's stock price is steadily climbing.
-- No sig for you!
To get an MS Blog, you have to sign up for it. .NET Passport Services ("Software") is owned by and is the copyrighted work of Microsoft and/or its suppliers. "
.NET Passport Services, you grant them copyright over it... that is, they'd have to explicitly recognize you as one of Microsoft's suppliers, no?
To sign up for it, you have to get Passport.
To get passport, you have to agree to their EULA.
Their EULA says:
"All content and software (if any) that is made available to view and/or download from the Web pages that are part of the
So, in essence, they could claim that as a virtue of creating content on their blog site, part of
Just a thought.
***Foucault is watching you..***
If my life were interresting enough for a blog, I wouldn't have the time for one ;-)
and even S L O W !!!
My life isn't interesting enough for a blog, yet that's exactly the reason I have a blog - to totally make up stuff to impress faceless strangers. And just so that no one calls me on the BS I post, I don't use my real name (exactly like when I post on /.)
"I'm going to worry like hell and that's not an easy job, believe me" - Lu-Tze "Thief of Time"
I was looking at the blogs at MSN- they were ALL terrible. Everyone single one that I found. I couldn't believe it. So.... I wrote my own rules for blogging: http://fromthemorning.blogspot.com/2004/12/blog.ht ml
http://fromthemorning.blogspot.com/
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I think its safe to say we can blame this on the lawmakers everywhere. Microsoft should be split into Micro-microsofts. I bet Bill Gates would be awesome @ monopoly. I'm usually the hot rod :-)
Looks like we're about to find out. Prepare to be 0wned, MS blogger!
What the hell was I supposed to be doing? I was going to do something, and now I'm on
No slashdot effect here?
On my WordPress blog, http://www.creationrobot.com/, I give a brief rundown of what features it offers and what it is like to use. I also give my verdict on wether this can compete against its target - Blogger.
In summery, it can. For the mass market Microsoft have put together a simple to use blog. It's easier and offers more than Blogger.
Spaces annoyed the hell out of me though - it wasn't customisable and it is utterly Microsoft centric (for example the music list has to come from WMP). But then I'm not its target audience - Nascar loving Joe Public is, and they will like it for its Apple-like simplicity.
Expect this built into Messenger soon.
So instead of 'Blogger', they name it 'Clogger'.
Finally, one name that makes sense.
You might have been more drunk than you think... that wasn't a blonde chick, it was a golden retriever.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
In yet another attempt to take over all of the Internet . . .
You say that as if it's a bad thing. Isn't this the goal of every self-respecting geek?