If you are so inclined you can watch an interview with some of the developers of MSN Spaces. The crappy new blog service for grandma from MSN. There are so many brilliant people working at Microsoft, why can’t they come up with anything innovative? I know a guy that works from Microsoft and he’s a total genius.
The problem is that this service is probably like the #1 service already because of the number of people using Messenger and Hotmail etc. It just lowers the bar for blogging. Or does it? Do we need 20 million more blogs? What does this do to Google? Will Google results get more clogged up with blogs?
My favorite part of the interview is when they get all defensive about how the steal their ideas from Apple. Actually they seem quite defensive the entire time…
"We look for great ideas everywhere and one of the places to look for great ideas is Macintosh" (~15:40)
So weak.
I almost forgot to mention the thing that bothered me the most. The terms of service says anything you post
using MSN Spaces becomes a product that MSN can sell without paying you a cent.