Windows Live Spaces

[blobrana]

Tonight Microsoft will announce the launch of Windows Live Spaces, a blogging and social networking site on the Live.com platform.
As Microsoft phases out the MSN brand in favour of Live.com, they’ve moved services over one at a time to the new platform. Unlike Windows Live Messenger, though, which runs in parallel with MSN Messenger, Live Spaces is taking over MSN Spaces completely - MSN Spaces pages now redirect to Live Spaces URLs.

http://blobrana.spaces.live.com/

[Vincent]

Interesting, but it seems to take ages to do anything.

http://vincentac.spaces.live.com/

Can't see me using it that much, but what the hell :-)

How did you resize the friends list?  Mone's still huge with nowt in it.

[Vincent]

Forget that last question - just IE being a pain in the arse as usual.

[blobrana]

Hum,
Slow with firefox too...

Here is a link i found...(Live Spaces doesn`t need no stinking JavaScript)

A JavaScript benchmark tool tested Opera 9.0, MSIE 6.0, and Firefox 1.5 and found that Opera came out top.

Browser            Average Time (ms)
Firefox 1.5                    1974
Internet Explorer 6 (SP2)    1622
Firefox 1.5 (Safe mode)    1752
Opera 9.0                     442

Opera 9.0 is more than 3.5 times faster than all of the other competing browsers.

http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed.php

[Vincent]

Opera 9.0 is more than 3.5 times faster than all of the other competing browsers.

That's my browser of choice :-)

It'd be great if the live space actually showed my profile photo (the same one as here).  I uploaded it when I made the account, I was able to see it in explorer then, not Opera and now it's just disappeared.

And not being able to edit it properly in Opera is annoying.

[Vincent]

Ooookaaaay....

I can see the profile photo in IE but not in anything else?

Strange that I can see your upside down photo in all browsers, but my proper photo doesn't appear in Opera or FF.

[blobrana]

Hum,
live spaces is still beta.

[Vincent]

I know :-)

But, I've never seen a problem with a photo like this before.

I've uploaded it to the site, yet some browsers can't display it?  Strange.

[blobrana]

Hum,
convert it to another image format ie Gif ?

But try this .jpg as a test first (no EXIF info)...

[blobrana]

Microsoft's Aug. 1 launch of its Windows Live Spaces blogging/social-networking platform has not been a smooth one.

Customers of Microsoft's successor to MSN Spaces are reporting a variety of performance, publishing, rendering and browser-compatibility issues since Microsoft rolled out the final version of Windows Live Spaces on Aug. 1.
Windows Live Spaces Program Manager Greg Phipps acknowledged on the Space Craft Live Spaces blog that the Spaces team "disappointed a bunch of you with the issues we had in our rollout last night."
Phipps noted that in the first 12 hours that the new platform went live, poor Spaces performance was the order of the day.

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[blobrana]

Microsoft has introduced Windows Live Writer which  is a PC desktop application that connects directly to your  (any) blogging service.
Live  Writer has lots of features such as WYSIWYG authoring, photo publishing, map publishing, Writer SDK and compatibility.

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