"The main change is that the new home page when you log in shows what?s happening with contacts in your social network, a similar approach as Facebook. Users can also now send messages directly to each other, and add a guestbook module that allows visitors to leave rich-text comments, including photos and videos. There are also enhancements to their APIs - see "

"Microsoft says Live Spaces now has 93 million user spaces; recent Comscore stats put them at 112 million monthly unique visitors. 4 billion photos have been uploaded to the service by users, and 18 million new photos are uploaded daily."

"Live Spaces is clearly one of the larger social networks. Like Google?s Orkut, though, most of its users seem to be non-U.S. and it is frequently forgotten in this MySpace/Facebook world."

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"Is this thing still going? I can?t believe anyone would use a Microsoft social network. I mean that?s not a brand with a cool cachet is it? Or maybe it comes preinstalled on new PCs now - the same way Microsoft manages to get anyone to use any of their web services."

"I don?t think it?s fair to compare it with Orkut though. Orkut is - or used to be - 99% a brazilian site. Live Spaces is a lot more disperse."

"As for not being US-centric, well, that?s how the world actually is: the US happens to be the most influential country in many aspects, but still it is just one country, out of many many more?"

"Many americans have a hard time envisioning the Internet as a truly global village. I mean, they know it is, but anything not in English seems very distant, foreign and useless. That doesn?t happen as much for the rest of the world - they embrace sites using their own language as well as those in English. That is a good thing for US sites, but then, it also results in non-US netsurfers having a broader view and more complete experience of what the Internet really is. They also read blogs from *very smart people* whose names aren?t Scoble, Arrington, Malik, O?Reilly, etc."

"They do a good job with the Live messenger integration. It?s not completely overwhelming, yet it is also hard to ignore. I?m sure that most Live messenger users have given it a go at some point."

"It?s interesting to see how big their numbers really are. Though because of the integration with Messenger I?m sure they have a higher number of dead accounts than other services."

"It?ll be interesting to see if a more community-oriented network can make a bigger impact. I always though it seemed to be missing out on that sie of things. Considering it is tightly coupled with Hotmail and Messenger it could be one to watch."

"Replying to Michael Camilleri?s question about where are Windows Live Spaces users from, here?s some data (reported by ComScore) from Oct. 2006 that may help to answer your question: "

"Stop telling foolishness, almost all of English speaking Asia will be in Orkut, I can say this India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Gulf Countries etc are on it very actively. And the so called web2.0 sites including this one is not taking notice of it."

"The US market is a developed market, your expandability is limited compared to the Asian markets so Google is getting everything right, silently (nod)"

"And the thing everyone must note is that Google is not doing anything in particular for that..it
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