MSN Spaces has an API…

Nice to see that MSN Spaces now supports the MetaWeblogAPI, thanks to Dare Obasanjo for posting that on his blog. Why is that a big deal? Because now developers can build things that can write to MSN Spaces. I’ll have to see if Maryam can use Flock with her MSN Spaces-based blog, for instance.

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  1. MSN Spaces now supports

    MSN Spaces  now supports MetaWeblog API . 
    So, what does mean to everyone?  It means that you can use blogging software like BlogJet  to post to your MSN Space.
    Cool!  This means that I can unify my blog posting a…

  2. Since it’s a beta for developers of weblog posting tools (sorry, gotta read clear down to the end of the post), probably not unless Maryam’s a Flock developer now.

    Which would be very cool ;)

  3. Since it’s a beta for developers of weblog posting tools (sorry, gotta read clear down to the end of the post), probably not unless Maryam’s a Flock developer now.

    Which would be very cool ;)

  4. Isn’t that like a core feature of a blogging system? If anyone else launched a blogging service without features like that they would fail miserably but because Microsoft currently has so much marketing leverage they are able to get away with it.

    It would be so nice to see Microsoft compete based upon the quality of their products and not on their marketing muscle….

  5. Isn’t that like a core feature of a blogging system? If anyone else launched a blogging service without features like that they would fail miserably but because Microsoft currently has so much marketing leverage they are able to get away with it.

    It would be so nice to see Microsoft compete based upon the quality of their products and not on their marketing muscle….

  6. Oh lord no. If MS bought Six Apart, the entire product line would be rewritten to only work on IIS, you’d need Passport IDs to use it, it would be six times the current size, and you could only use 10% of the feature set outside of IE on Windows. Six months later, the Firefox developer would be hired, so you’d have firefox support two months later.

    If they didn’t get sick.

    LiveJournal would of course be immediately shuttered

  7. Oh lord no. If MS bought Six Apart, the entire product line would be rewritten to only work on IIS, you’d need Passport IDs to use it, it would be six times the current size, and you could only use 10% of the feature set outside of IE on Windows. Six months later, the Firefox developer would be hired, so you’d have firefox support two months later.

    If they didn’t get sick.

    LiveJournal would of course be immediately shuttered