Tag - Windows-Live-Spaces
Live Spaces loses 15% of its vistors in the past year
on Sat 15 Mar 2008 (14:15 GMT)
on Sat 15 Mar 2008 (14:15 GMT)
Thanks to LiveSide for this find, I believe they sum up the situation very well:
In my opinion Spaces was only popular because of its integration within Messenger. To put things bluntly, all its features have been mimicked by others services who have made them better and provided a key relationship between social networking with friends. For me, Windows Live Spaces is just not practical.
According to some new numbers included in an email from Nielsen Online today, Windows Live Spaces, never a big player in the US market for social networking tools, lost significant ground over the past year.
Nielsen Online provides February's top U.S. social networking sites and blogs for your reference. They are ranked by unique audience and rounded to the nearest thousand, so MySpace.com had 55.4 million unique visitors in February 2008, growing 4 percent over February 2007. Please note that these are custom lists compiled by the Nielsen Online PR team with the help of our media analysts. While these lists are not meant to be exhaustive, they provide a good idea of the significant players in each space.
Nielsen Online provides February's top U.S. social networking sites and blogs for your reference. They are ranked by unique audience and rounded to the nearest thousand, so MySpace.com had 55.4 million unique visitors in February 2008, growing 4 percent over February 2007. Please note that these are custom lists compiled by the Nielsen Online PR team with the help of our media analysts. While these lists are not meant to be exhaustive, they provide a good idea of the significant players in each space.
In my opinion Spaces was only popular because of its integration within Messenger. To put things bluntly, all its features have been mimicked by others services who have made them better and provided a key relationship between social networking with friends. For me, Windows Live Spaces is just not practical.
Windows Live Spaces 'M2' = wave 2
on Tue 24 Jul 2007 (00:05 GMT)
on Tue 24 Jul 2007 (00:05 GMT)
Today I noticed that the interface for Windows Live Spaces had changed to be more alike to the wave 2 Windows Live products, so no more wispy waves, instead a glassy border. Check it out!
Also I'm not advertising any of my own projects :-O
Edit: After Nile's drunken post (hey, I love Nile's space as much as the next guy) I've found out more about this update. The Space Craft (the official Windows Live Spaces development blog) has a detailed post about the new release, as do LiveSide. The update includes improvements on the lists feature, enchantments to photo galleries, and the availability of Windows Live Spaces in Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. absorbation
Edit 2: I'd only had 1 Guinness that night, but a fair few coffees. Was not drunk! :P aNILEator
>> Windows Live Spaces
>> Nile's Live Space
>> Info on the update
Also I'm not advertising any of my own projects :-O
Edit: After Nile's drunken post (hey, I love Nile's space as much as the next guy) I've found out more about this update. The Space Craft (the official Windows Live Spaces development blog) has a detailed post about the new release, as do LiveSide. The update includes improvements on the lists feature, enchantments to photo galleries, and the availability of Windows Live Spaces in Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. absorbation
Edit 2: I'd only had 1 Guinness that night, but a fair few coffees. Was not drunk! :P aNILEator
>> Windows Live Spaces
>> Nile's Live Space
>> Info on the update