Myspace better watch out …

Thanks for covering Windows Live Spaces in TechCrunch.

If folks are interested, you can find a list of Spaces team member blogs at: http://robdolin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3C8CA60F8F925FEC!364.entry and you can also see many Spaces team member as the “Friends” of the The Space Craft (http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com)

I think it’s important to note, that MSN Spaces had the same policy as MySpace recently took on. Everything you post on MSN Spaces or MySpace isn’t completely yours anymore. In the ToS they state, that they reserve the right to use and/or sell any of your content, pictures, text etc. around the world. It’s a non-exclusive (that means you can still sell it too, but so can they) world-wide copyright agreement. Most users are completely unaware of this. I’m presuming, that Windows Live Spaces has the same clause in its ToS.

This is an interesting layout with an overall improvement in navigation - but resource demanding - takes FOREVER to load

Simran - the content you post to MSN/Windows Live Spaces is owned by the contributor. You own the copyright to your content. Microsoft has a right to republish the content because without that, we couldn’t host a service that publishes people’s content. We couldn’t syndicate via RSS. And a host of other things. It’s standard for a ToS in the industry.

We had attorneys across the blogosphere weigh in on this issue when we first shipped in December 2004. You can still search for it, I’m sure. Rest assured though, there is no ill intent.

Wow the design looks great. I hope the sever gets faster in the future.

Performance will improve very soon - very complex rollout

obviously this splendid replace is a shock to part of the current MSN Space users:
http://spaces.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FDCF9F02EA8B7F67!106.entry?_c=BlogPart#permalink
almost 80% of the comment is asking the old space back.
of course most of those commenters are just kids. they probably will not really leave the live web. Yeah well, maybe that’s not important - like MSN already though so and did so. It’s just an interesting phenomenon.

Wow, MSN is back! They are trying so hard to get out from the hole, and it is actually working . Good Job MSN. Ops Live!

I cant add a blog post

Even Microsoft has gone into Social Networking…. The market seems to be shrinking for Microsoft. They’ll really to find some real alternatives.

I have tested the service. It is really great! Fantastic! It really makes the web behave as a desktop app!

I can only imagine this will overtake MySpace if they can convince every myspace member to switch over at the same time. Even though I’m certain this site is technologically better than MySpace, so long as my friends stay w/ NewsCorp I have no plans on leaving.

it is great for me … live spaces is marvelous

The site apparently only works in Internet Explorer. That alone is a pretty big strike against it, no matter how good it might look. Myspace and Yahoo 360 work in any browser.

It’s interesting to know that MSN Spaces is the laregest blooging platform at present.I see a possible merger of mySpace and blogspot.. or even technorati..

~kaustav ghoshal

@Jason Gurtz

It works fine for me in Firefox 1.5.0.5

Companies are doing everything they can to create a bubble2.0 so they can get crash2.0 asap. Everyone is creating myspace type places to share photos and everything else on the planet, and its all going be magically financed by google (or msn ads). You’d think people learned their lesson in the previous crash???

So, do I get this right that Spaces will not be attached to your E-mail and IM any more? And, will it be able to be set on friends only read? I used to have MySpace, but I disliked it so much I closed it. Whereas, MSN has been my favorite site for a long time. I hope it doesn’t change too badly.

I have MY SPACE and now that Windows Live ID came into effect, I can’t sign into my space anymore — I tried everything and now I’m seriously annoyed!!! Anybody have a suggestion???? Keeps saying space not available — well funny it was before this all came into effect!!

MSN Live Spaces is highly unstable!!!

90% of the time, my blog will not load properly, regardless how many times I refresh the page.

Sometimes, all the letters on the page will go missing, you gotta highlight the whole chunk with your mouse to see the words.

Sometimes, my theme is switched to something else which I can’t recognise.

Sometimes, the whole page is distorted, I can’t even customise to save the page, cos everything is distorted. And worse, it hangs my internet explorer or whatever other software I use to access the internet.

MSN Live Spaces is a big joke! I would rather have the old spaces back. Seriously, me and many of my friends are considering migrating to somewhere else.

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