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MSN Spaces, a free service currently available in beta
version, is an entirely new offering from MSN that allows consumers
to create personal Internet Spaces sites where they can express
themselves in a variety of ways and interact with the people they
care about most. MSN Spaces is more than an ordinary personal Web
site; it's an easy-to-use service that is more like a dynamic online
scrapbook, giving people a place to create and update a Web log, or
blog, and share their photos, music playlists and more, all while
better connecting them with friends, family or the online world. |
Features
The MSN Spaces beta, available in 26 markets and
14 languages, comes with a rich notification system that informs
people's contacts about changes to their Spaces to help bring people
closer together.
MSN Spaces Enables Rich Self-Expression
MSN Spaces enables consumers to easily share
things with the people they care about in a format that can be
easily customized. People can start a Space with just a few clicks,
and then personalize it to reflect their moods, likes and dislikes:
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Rich layout. Fifteen custom
backgrounds and five layout template choices allow consumers to
customize their MSN Spaces quickly.
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Web logs. The MSN Spaces blogging tool
allows people to publish and maintain online personal journals
and enables them to link to photos and other Web sites.
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Photo albums. Consumers can upload up
to 10 MB of photos (250 images after compression) to their
Spaces sites and display them to others in slide shows.
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E-mail uploads. Consumers can upload
photos or blog postings to their Spaces from virtually any
e-mail service or e-mail-enabled mobile device.
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Music favorites and lists. Consumers
can create and manage lists of information that is important to
them, such as their favorite music, books or travel
destinations. Consumers can easily share playlists through their
Space with Microsoft® Windows Media® technologies. With just two
clicks, people can sample or purchase a song on someone's
playlist through MSN Music.*
MSN Spaces Helps Users Connect With
Others
MSN Spaces is designed to help people express
themselves online while better connecting them with their friends,
family and other contacts:
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Contact Cards. When a person clicks on
a Contact Card in a MSN Messenger or Hotmail® Contact list, the
card pops up and gives a sneak peek at that contact's Space -
from its look and feel to the person's most recent postings. The
Contact Card includes links to the Space and those entries for
easy access.
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Gleaming. When a Spaces site is
updated or content is added, the MSN Messenger Contact icon of
the Space's owner will light up, making it easy for friends and
family to know when there have been changes. This facilitates
more visits to a Space, faster responses to new postings and
closer bonds between Space owners and their contacts.
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RSS. MSN Spaces also supports RSS 2.0,
so consumers can publish their Space to others by way of RSS
viewers and aggregators, including My MSN, scheduled to come
soon. This is another way to ensure that the people who matter
to a user can stay up to date on his or her Space.
MSN Spaces Offers Protection and Control
MSN Spaces is designed to give consumers control
over how they share their Space information and who can access it:
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Permissions. Consumers have three
permission control settings on their MSN Spaces site, enabling
them to decide just how widely they want to share their content:
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Public: Viewable by anyone
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Contacts Only: Viewable only by their MSN
Messenger contacts
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Private: Viewable only by contacts whose
e-mail addresses are manually entered by the MSN Spaces
author or selected from an MSN Contact list
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Controls. MSN Spaces gives the
consumer control over how others interact with his or her Space.
MSN Spaces includes settings that give each person power over
who views his or her Space and how people can interact, read and
comment on the Space. This includes the ability to set up the
Space so people can read but not comment.
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Statistics. Consumers will be able to
track visitor statistics on their Spaces site, so they will know
how many people are visiting as well as other detailed
information.
* Features and services based on market
availability.
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The service features listed herein relate to pre-release features
and content that may be modified before their commercial release or
withdrawn. Accordingly, the information may not accurately describe
or reflect the service channels and content as they appear when they
are commercially released. This information is provided for
informational purposes only, and Microsoft makes no warranties,
express or implied, with respect to this section of the service or
the information contained on it. |
Microsoft, MSN and Hotmail are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States
and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products
mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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