Thursday, December 02, 2004
Microsoft's "MSN Spaces"
I saw something on Slashdot about a new service that Microsoft is hosting. It's called MSN Spaces, and it's designed so anyone can start their own blog, even your 90 year old grandmother! The upside is obviously that the technically elite won't have any difficulty getting into it... the downside of course is that the Internet will be swamped with even more blogs of people who can barely write and have nothing really interesting to say (Yeah, I know that's pretty ironic coming from me).
I signed up for MSN Spaces, and gave it a bit of a whirl. It kind of reminds me of phpNuke, minus all the other cool stuff... and hopefully minus all the security flaws. The templates are all really generic, and right now the place is overloaded with new people from Slashdot checking it out. I made my own test blog, Computer's Aren't My Thing, just to try it out. A fitting name since the site is so slow, and parts of it don't really work. One last bad thing about it... while it does have a nice upload system in place, image upload and blog space are both limited to 10 megabytes. Not nearly enough for me I'm afraid.
So my final verdict? I'll definitely stick to PrezKennedy.org and Blogger for my needs. ¶ 11:15 AM
I saw something on Slashdot about a new service that Microsoft is hosting. It's called MSN Spaces, and it's designed so anyone can start their own blog, even your 90 year old grandmother! The upside is obviously that the technically elite won't have any difficulty getting into it... the downside of course is that the Internet will be swamped with even more blogs of people who can barely write and have nothing really interesting to say (Yeah, I know that's pretty ironic coming from me).
I signed up for MSN Spaces, and gave it a bit of a whirl. It kind of reminds me of phpNuke, minus all the other cool stuff... and hopefully minus all the security flaws. The templates are all really generic, and right now the place is overloaded with new people from Slashdot checking it out. I made my own test blog, Computer's Aren't My Thing, just to try it out. A fitting name since the site is so slow, and parts of it don't really work. One last bad thing about it... while it does have a nice upload system in place, image upload and blog space are both limited to 10 megabytes. Not nearly enough for me I'm afraid.
So my final verdict? I'll definitely stick to PrezKennedy.org and Blogger for my needs. ¶ 11:15 AM
