Microsoftâs New Blogging Service
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Microsoft quietly launched its new blogging service, MSN Spaces, earlier this week. The âquietâ launch has already attracted more than 250,000 users to the new service, still in beta.
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What better day to announce a new blogging service than the day when we all learned that âblogâ was the most popular word for an online dictionary.
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Microsoft will jump into the music-downloading market this week, with the rollout of a new MSN online-music service that will compete with Apple&#39;s iTunes and RealNetworks&#39; Rhapsody.
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Since most people using the MSN Spaces service are are just getting their weblogs up and running, it&#39;s not easy to tell what a full-fledged blog on the site will look like.
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LONDON - MSN is upping the stakes in the battle for online and desktop domination with the launch of a new set of communication services to include blogging and picture sharing.
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Vox populi, 2004 style. Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) on Wednesday said it will offer blogging to the online many-headed.
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Since Microsoft officially announced the availablity of the MSN Desktop Search their blog has received over 100 comments which includes some interesting and useful feedback.
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Tycho:  Months after it was necessary, Sony has thrown their blogging hat into the ring...  of blogging.  I've heard people compare it to Larry Hryb/Major Nelson's blog, but with a rotating "crew" of bloggers - like a public relations version of the Wu Tang Clan - it's more like Microsoft's Gamerscore blog.  Which, coincidentally, I never read because it is run by a rotating "crew" of bloggers, like a public relations version of the etcetera etcetera.  The mental image is that of a corporate hydra, the brand seared and scabbed upon its breast.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft continues to test updates to its Windows Live online services, including a service launched last year that allows users to submit blog posts simultaneously to more than one blogging platform. A new beta of that service, called Windows Live Writer, is now available from an internal blog. Windows Live Writer is a tool to compose blog posts and publish them on some of the Web's most popular blogging platforms, such as Windows Live Spaces, Community Server, WordPress, and TypePad. Microsoft released the first test version of the service last August but hadn't updated the product since November 2006, according to the Liveside blog. An entry by Nick White, a Microsoft product manager, on the Windows Vista team blog lays out the new features in Windows Live Writer. It now has in-line spell checking, the ability to add categories and table editing, and easier image insertion, he said. The new Windows Live Writer beta is available in both English and Spanish in the U.S. as well as in English in India and the U.K. It also is available in Spain, Germany, Japan, China, and France. In addition to the Writer update, Microsoft also released new betas for its instant-messaging and Web-based mail services this week. Windows Live Messenger 8.5 is now in official beta, though users got an early look when the release was leaked in Spanish on the Messenger Adictos blog earlier this week. The beta includes a user interface designed to look more like the revamped Aero interface of Windows Vista. Users can find the beta on its Windows Live site. Windows Live Mail, the successor to Windows Mail that is included in Windows Vista and Outlook Express on Windows XP, also has a new beta release. The new version includes a new UI that is similar to other services in Windows Live and also allows users to sync to their Windows Live Hotmail accounts. Other features in the Windows Live Mail beta include offline mail, accounting aggregation for Windows Live Hotmail and other POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP mail accounts, and RSSÂ feed aggregation. Improvements in the service include better photo-sharing and search features as well as more security, according to Microsoft. Windows Live Mail also will feature integration with other Windows Live services, including Windows Live Spaces. For the time being, the service will not include advertisements, the company said. However, many of the Windows Live services have been created by Microsoft to drive online advertising revenue, so many of them already include advertising or will in the future if they do not already. Microsoft revealed a new strategy to develop new online services in November 2005 and also unveiled the new Windows Live brand. Many of the services previously branded MSN are now called Windows Live. More information and a list of service can be found on the Windows Live home page.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Microsoft is working on the Smart Blogroll, a way for bloggers and blog readers to learn more about the information and topics discussed on blogs. Bill Slawski points to a paper by Eric Baumer which defines the Smarter Blogroll: Our approach was to scrape the RSS feeds for all the blogs on a user&#8217;s blogroll, run a [...]
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The free, hosted MSN Spaces service is Microsoft&#39;s first consumer foray into providing a blogging platform. Spaces will enable MSN members to maintain a blog and control it with some sophisticated features that are not typical of all blogging services.
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Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company&#39;s software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.
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Corporate blogging guidelines come down to respect and responsibility.
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New beta of blogging tool Windows Live Writer joins updates to Microsoft's Windows Live instant messaging and e-mail apps.
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Readers find fault with Wired News' review of Microsoft's new operating system. Plus: Links to our most popular blogs.
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MSN Spaces debuted in its test form as Microsoft became the latest company to offer blogging to the masses. MSN Spaces, which allows users without highly technical skills to set up Web journals, is targeted
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Microsoft&#39;s entry into the blogging realm with MSN Spaces will cause an exponential growth in popularity for the Web-based communications technology.