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."

Comments

Re:private areas to the blog

[jtcedinburgh]

Try WordPress. Open source, PHP/MySQL based, nice. jtc

Re:An even better feature

[pmjordan]

If you're looking for a better IM network, why not try Jabber? There are loads of clients out there, which won't break, since the protocol is entirely open. If your client of choice doesn't support other networks, you can talk to people who aren't on jabber using server-side 'transports' to connect to other networks via Jabber itself.

~phil

Re:And I have no doubt...

[rp8774]

Windows Messenger is more for corporate networks and supports Exchange internal messaging.

MSN Messenger is the consumer version with more frills and contains advertising and other useless things. This version doesn't support Exchange messaging.

Re:Missing product for Google?

[shird]

They have "hello"