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Friday Jul 06, 2007

Microsoft LiveSpace

Microsoft LiveSpace is the blog tool provided by Microsoft which allows registered user to create a “space” in the Internet which can hold pictures, music as well as blog entries. Microsoft LiveSpace contains a profile system that user could define his profile with general personal information. User can choose this information to be public or private. In LiveSpace user can setup permission which defines the accessibility of the blog. No matter your blog is public or private, it's easy to setup.  LiveSpace can auto translate the headings to the language defined on user’s computer. That makes people from different country could setup their blogs easily and makes user easy to read other people’s blog.

 

As normal blog tools, LiveSpace allow user publish a new blog or save as a draft before publish. Visitors could leave comments for the content that they could access. It provides Trackback and Permalink functions for the blog entries. It also could achieve the old blog entries according to the time. It provides a visually text editor for both content and comment editing. User could easily add a blog or a comment. It also supports emoticons which makes blog lively.

 

Nowadays, LiveSpace supports gadget, feeds and embed video. When a user logs into the space, LiveSpace will display a new page shows the up-to-date changes about other user’s space. User can send message to other users, which can keep in touch with the Spaces friends and meet new people by sending them personal messages.

 

There are lots of plug in available online that allow user to customize the space. Such as mood clock, weather report, visitors statistic, etc. User can add the Guestbook to space so visitors can leave messages. User can also add images and videos in a Guestbook entry. User can edit the space theme by adding personal picture as a background.

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