December 02, 2004

• Seeing as I have a three-digit Blogger account, I think I will pass.
• .Net is evil. Evil I tell ya.
• Thanks for the update canterei, but I prefer the smooth, refreshing taste of Pepsi Blue.
• Eh. There's a cute asian chick blowing kisses at me. I'm sold. *pulls out wallet*
• I prefer the smooth, refreshing taste of Pepsi Blue Not every FPP or comment link to a corporate-sponsored site is a "Pepsi Blue" post. This FPP reads like it was done in good faith, not as a shill. To keep it in this context rather than mass consumer beverages, since Blogger is part of the Google family, are references to it Pepsi Blue posts? How about references to Movable Type?
• Point well made, el_hombre, but didn't Microsoft recently buy Pepsi, or was it Coke?
• The cute Asian chick is just about the only thing on there that's not very unpleasant to stare at. Ugly, uuuuugly design. The moblogging bit might be interesting - it's hard to tell, because a) I tend to involuntarily fall asleep every time the phrase 'moblogging' is uttered, and b) they don't friggin' tell you anything about it - but the rest of the "integration" looks both useless and sucky in the extreme. The "search other blogs for content" feature - why? Needing to have a .NET passport to leave comments - sweet jaysus, no, no. I wonder what kind of people will use it? It seems to fall uneasily in between targetting social networking site users, LJ users, and Blogger users. I can't really see it appealing to serious users, t3h l33t h4xx0rz, OMGrrrls, photosharers - there's better products out there for all of them. Hmmmm.
• For materials you post or otherwise provide to Microsoft related to the MSN Web Sites (a "Submission"), you grant Microsoft permission to (1) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission, each in connection with the MSN Web Sites, and (2) sublicense these rights, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Microsoft will not pay you for your Submission." tee hee!!!!
• Interesting that people thought this was a shill. I'm certainly no fan of MSN Spaces -- I think it has some interesting technical capabilities but basically it's about building a sanitized consumerist blogosphere 2.0 that Microsoft can exploit. More comments here.
• I think that was just harmless snarky jokeyness, and not meant to be taken too seriously. You know, like MeTa.
• Eh. I won't bore you with a point by point list of reasons their service blows, as I'm sure others have and will expound upon that in better detail then I. Some quick highlights: - You can only choose their premade templates - ultra primative text input. ie: This comment box I am typing in now is a more powerful a text editor. [edit: useing firefox. After reading their help, this might be an ie only feature. Which, btw, would also blow] - .net passport needed to make comments - pageloads are inconsistant. But then, this IS in beta. - instant message blogging appears to be vaporware, unless I am missing something. Anyway, I don't see the point. If you're looking for simple free servedBySomeoneElse blogging solution, blogger would be a better choice. If you are a 15 year old girl, why are you NOT on Xanga or LiveJournal already? If you want suprisingly powerful customizable software, again, Xanga and LiveJournal are better starting points. If you want to moblog, flickr or buzznet might be better solutions. I think blogger can be made to support this feature too. If you are into paying for stuff, or even slightly tech savy, this is obviously not meant for you. So, I suppose, I don't get it. I do note, however, out of the 15 recent myspaces I checked out, only 3 were from the USA. Maybe if we can get the Brazilians on board, it'll go down like fotolog did. The only good example of how they want you to use it: http://spaces.msn.com/members/curtisk/ A monkey perhaps?:http://spaces.msn.com/members/fudgypup/ When did g@m3rz style become "cool":http://spaces.msn.com/members/mikemcateer/ Mine (self link!): http://spaces.msn.com/members/thepublicaccount/
• ultra primative text input. ie: This comment box I am typing in now is a more powerful a text editor. [edit: useing firefox. After reading their help, this might be an ie only feature. Which, btw, would also blow] Yup. They seem to have gone out of their way to make the site as close to unusable as possible for FF users. In IE, it's a virtual replica of the Blogger text box. On a whim, I'm also giving it a fair and balanced try-out myself at http://spaces.msn.com/members/yadda-yadda-oops/. It's getting quite hard, because every time I start writing a post about one way in which it blows, I find three new ways it blows.
• Xeni over at BoingBoing heard that MSN Spaces censors certain words or word combinations in blog titles. The results are pretty darn funny. link!
• They don't WANT to be- oh, you know the rest.
• Dunno what you did flashboy, but your site is coming up empty. Should have read Xeni's article first, you would have known that "Cockpunch, the Monkey's Blog" was a forbidden name for your MSNspace.
• How to pronounce 'MSNspace'? 'Missin' space'? 'Mission space'? 'Microsoft Netspace'? 'Em ess en space'?
• Should work now. It'd got set to 'private' somehow.
• A Here's mine. I used the ugliest skin for your amusement. I call it 'Aneurysm'(the skin, I mean)
• -A
• My eeeeeyyyyyyeeeeeeesssssssssss!!!!!!!!
• What is moblogging?
• That's the purplest thing I have ever seen. More purple than Barney.
• mo money, mo blogging. (sorry) Mobile blogging. from your cellphone or PDA, possibly with pictures from the aforementioned device.
• Even for Microsoft, this is severe blowage. And the needing a .Net passport to comment - just feck off.
• I prefer 'mob-logging'. As in chucking tree stumps at gatherings of people.
• flashboy-- your "Gleaming the Cube" reference would make my little sister want to marry you. That has been her favorite movie for years.
• Recent reference that pleased me: "How's that cube coming? Gleamy?"
• Is that a reference to "The Cube"? I don't remember any gleaming...