I have yet more news on MSN Spaces. Statistics from comScore show that MSN Spaces is the most used blog system worldwide with 100 million unique visitors. The amount of visitors to the service has over doubled in the past year from 41.65 million to 101 million. This is the equivalent of nearly one in seven internet users worldwide.

MSN Spaces has not been around for long, it came out of beta phase in April last year, and if I remember correctly, one in six blogs are now owned by MSN Spaces. All this has happened within a year and a half since the public first saw it. The huge amount of users is probably due to all the integration used in MSN and Windows Live Messenger. I wonder how far MSN Spaces will grow this year.

A press release about this from Microsoft also confirms that "the next version of MSN Spaces, called Windows Live Spaces, is expected to launch later this year with additional functionality including a social networking service and the ability for developers to create gadgets, new features developed by hobbyists and partners, that can be added to a Space by users".

Microsoft Press Release
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