MSN Spaces Blog Service Launches
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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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Beta application is available as part of the new MSN Toolbar Suite.
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Microsoft&#39;s MSN has introduced a beta version of its new blogging tool, MSN Spaces, which it expects will eventually be supported by advertising.
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The MSN network of Internet services has introduced updates to its free communication services to make e-mail, instant messaging and online sharing easier and more personal for consumers.
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Microsoft has launched a set of toolbars under the MSN brand. Plugging into Windows, Outlook and Internet Explorer, they index documents and email in the background and allow fast querying.
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New social networking site lets users share photos, videos, and more.
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Microsoft Corp.  unveiled on Wednesday a new set of Web-based services allowing users of its MSN service to publish and track each other's blogs, or online journals.
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Hoping to keep more Internet users in its branded universe, Microsoft Corp. has become the latest company to offer blogging to the masses.
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WITH GOOGLE nipping at its heels, Microsoft has just released a beta edition of its new MSN Desktop Search application. Like Google&#39;s very similar product, Desktop Search builds an index of documents and e
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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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US software company Microsoft has launched a beta version of its MSN Toolbar Suite, with desktop search functionality that can help users find documents, media files or e-mail messages on their PCs.
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CNET hopes to beef up its blogging presence.
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(InfoWorld) - Blogging pioneer Six Apart has made an aggressive move to defend and expand its presence in the workplace now that major vendorsÂ such asÂ IBMÂ and MicrosoftÂ have begun to build blog components into their enterprise collaboration platforms. On Tuesday, Six Apart released the most significant upgrade in years of its enterprise blogging software Movable Type, boosting what many industry experts already consider to be the most sophisticated product of its kind. Movable Type 4 has been rearchitected to simplify companies' management and deployment of corporate blogs and the creation of online communities, Six Apart officials said. The company also announced its intention to release an open source version of Movable Type in this year's third quarter for companies and developers interested in extending the functionality of the platform. The new version's enhancements keep Movable Type ahead of the rudimentary blogging capabilities vendorsÂ such asÂ IBM and Microsoft have begun putting in their collaboration platforms. "No one has anything as robust as Movable Type. Six Apart has a big head start," said Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research analyst. However, Six Apart must keep enhancing the product and making sure it's easy to integrate with enterprise systems, because what Microsoft and IBM lack in sophistication, they make up for in the convenience of providing broad, one-stop collaboration platforms. "This is where the Movable Type story needs to be stronger," said Mike Gotta, a Burton Group analyst. Increasingly, enterprise customers expect to have an integrated suite of Web 2.0 collaboration software that includes such thingsÂ as blog, wiki, and content syndication applications, Gotta said. A step in the right direction is Movable Type's inclusion in Intel's SuiteTwo bundle of Web 2.0 enterprise collaboration software, although it remains to be seen if SuiteTwo will succeed in the market, Gotta said. SuiteTwo, which also includes wiki software from Socialtext, integration services from SpikeSource, and content syndication tools from NewsGator Technologies and SimpleFeed, became available in April. Integration and bundling efforts aside, Six Apart should also consider building a wiki component for Movable Type, because there is so much synergy between wikis and blogs, Gotta said. Of course, Six Apart must continue with its aggressive innovation and upgrade release cycle so that it can keep Movable Type's functionality safely ahead of offerings from the likes of IBM and Microsoft, Koplowitz said. "It's always dangerous to be in the crosshairs of big organizations like IBM and Microsoft," Koplowitz said. Movable Type customers include Intel, Oracle, Boeing, The Washington Post, and New York University. Highlights in Movable Type 4 include:-- Blog publishing improvementsÂ such asÂ an installation and upgrade wizard, enhanced template management tools, and a redesigned user interface;-- Community-creation capabilities such as the ability for blog owners to let readers become members of their Web sites and able to post text, photos, video, and audio;-- IT administration tools to manage multiple blogs and users from a central interface;-- Scalability featuresÂ such asÂ the ability to run Movable Type in multiple servers;-- Integration capabilities to tie in to enterprise systems and directories. The beta version of Movable Type 4 can be downloaded from the product's main site. Regarding pricing, the product is free for personal use. Customers with commercial, education, and nonprofit licenses for the product's current version can upgrade to version 4 at a discount. More information about pricing is at this page.
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Last Thursday, MSN announced the official beta launch of their search engine. Although a preview had been available on their sandbox site, the launch marked the official unveiling of the company&#39;s proprietary search technology to the general public.
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A new free new tool lets people easily set up personal journals, often called blogs, on the World Wide Web. MSN Spaces, which debuts in test form Thursday, is aimed at home users who want to share things such
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With its release today of the beta version of Movable Type 4 (MT4), the latest edition of its popular blogging software, Six Apart hopes to make business blogging easier and ever more popular.
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By Brier Dudley, Seattle Times  Jun. 7--Excerpts from the blog   Reporter-turned-blogger Mary Jo Foley said Wednesday that Microsoft is developing a "kitchen computing environment" that includes a family calendar, recipe center, entertainment features and a shared bulletin board.