I hope to meet many of you at Mix07 in Vegas on Monday 30 April. John and I will be there with some great news about Spaces. If you can't make it, not to worry; the session will be recorded.
John and I are going to introduce the development platform for Spaces, and show you how to start taking advantage of all our features to build cool applications for you and your audience. We'll be showing many different ways to use the platform, because we will offer multiple different API suites to capture Spaces in your applications.
I'm looking forward to meeting many of you and hearing your feedback!
So, we've just realized our latest set of features and updates. I hope you enjoy playing with the site. Please let me know your space, so I can visit and sign your guestbook :)
The areas I've been working on in this release are related to the brand new developer platform. This platform will appeal to different types of developers. I'm going to be posting in detail about this shortly, but here is a preview of what our platform will be offering:
1) Brand new RSS feeds.
2) A suite of HTTP url-based intentional APIs.
3) Gadget improvements.
4) Metaweblog API
We're taking a very serious look at making Spaces extremely developer-friendly and accessible to a variety of programming applications. Please bookmark our Spaces and http://dev.live.com/Spaces. We'll be adding plenty of documentation and discussion as we get the platform working for you.
Thanks to everyone who has sent us feedback over the last few months. We’ve heard what you’ve been asking for with Spaces, and we’ve been working hard to create new features, which we hope you enjoy.
There are a lot of features here, so sit back, take a read, and then go try them out. Next week we’ll be posting more about each feature – one per day – so stay tuned for more. Sign up to get alerts when there’s a new Space Craft post.
Also, please keep the feedback coming— both in the comments on the Space Craft as well as through the Spaces Feedback form. We care about what you want, and we’re listening!
Communication There are brand new ways to communicate with your friends, as well as with new people that you’d like to meet.
Your new Spaces home page Now when you log in, you’ll see a new page dedicated to keeping you up-to-date on changes to your space and what’s new with your Windows Live Messenger contacts. In one glance you’ll see who has updated their space and who has added comments to your space. Roll over their picture to see who’s updated their photos, who’s posted a blog entry, and who’s added new lists.
Messaging Keep in touch with your Spaces friends and meet other people on Spaces by sending them messages. Just put your cursor over their profile picture and you’ll see a “Send a message” link. You can also use the link in the Visitor tools module on a person’s space.
Guestbook Add the guestbook module and people visiting your space can leave comments with rich formatting, including images and video. Add the guestbook to your space by clicking here.
Customization There are many new customization options for Spaces, so you can better control how your space looks.
Custom background image Now you can upload whatever picture you want from your computer and use it as the background of your space. Upload your image in the Customize menu under the Advanced tab.
Additional colors and themes There are now more themes to choose from and an easy-to-use color picker. You can also change the fonts!
Gadgets and Modules With the changes we’ve made to gadgets and modules, now you can customize them to create the layout and design you want for your space.
Size and style Most gadgets and modules can span the full width of a column, and you can now remove their borders or change their titles to whatever you want by clicking on the arrow in the right hand corner of the gadget or module when you are in Edit mode.
Other cool stuff You can have multiple modules at the top or bottom of your space that span all of the columns – perfect for your space title and tagline. You can also have more than one version of the same gadget on your space. And if you’re on someone else’s space and see a module you like, you can add it to your space by clicking the “+” sign in the upper-right corner of the module.
Photos With over 18 million photos uploaded by Spaces users every day, we know that improving the experience of managing photos is important to you, so we added a few new features.
Managing your photos There’s a brand new page for viewing and editing albums on your space.
Viewing photos There’s a new layout for the individual photo pages so it’s faster and easier to view your photos and see all of your comments at a glance.
Mobile There’s been a dramatic increase in Spaces mobile usage over the past few months, and we wanted to provide great mobile interaction with Spaces. Here’s what’s new:
See at a glance the recent updates and comments on your space
Lists Lists are now easier to use – and they look even better.
Music lists Now you can show specific music lists on your spaces home page as well as see multiple results when searching for music on Amazon to create your list.
Book lists Same as with music! Search for the book and add the information and picture from Amazon.com to your list.
Looks better in narrow view We’ve make some improvements to make your lists look better when in narrow columns on your space.
APIs and Feeds We wanted to give you the ability to access your Spaces information from a variety of locations and services, so we added new RSS feeds and opened up our APIs to allow you more freedom. Go crazy with your Spaces data! Visit: http://dev.live.com/spaces over the next few days for more information. Note: Only spaces with permissions set to “public” can use RSS feeds and APIs.
Profile Updates There are some new, cool additions to profiles.
Enhanced contact updates preview When you see a profile picture on Spaces, just put your cursor over the picture and you can see a lot more information about the person than ever before.
Have fun using the new features! We’re looking forward to seeing what you do with your space. And if you got this far, leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
I apologize for being gone for months; It's been a very busy year, and I've been distracted by other activities. I'm on vacation and will return in January. In the meantime, I'll try to answer any urgent questions you might have in the blog.
Some of you had concerns about "Page not available" errors a month ago. I think we've fixed this problem now. For those of you affected by this, I'd really like your help in verifying that things look good for you. If you have an opportunity, browse the Spaces site as much as you can later tonight, to see if you experience any trouble.
This is really for the users who got the DNS/Page Not Available error. Most of you were not affected by this error, so you can safely ignore this message.
This is one of the more promising ones, but it kinda cheats, because it's loading a Flash player :) Nonetheless, it's fun. I wasn't sure if there was a resizing problem when using this gagdet; if you see problems, provide feedback on the gadget's home page in the Live Gallery.
For those of you not already aware, Internet Explorer's next version is 7, and a version very close to the final gold is available for you to install in Microsoft's Web Site. Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/.
My favorite reasons to use IE7 are its advanced printing features and tabs. RSS support and Phishing detection are the other big stories from IE7.
Give it a shot, and let me know what you think. Unlike Spaces, this is not one of my creations, but I'll be happy to communicate any serious feedback to the team :-)
I suspect most of you already know about this, but in case you don't - there's a pretty awesome tool that lets you post to your blog and do other creative things with your Space without visiting the browser - it's Windows Live Writer. Click on the link referenced below and enjoy.
Welcome to the Windows Live Writer team blog! We are excited to announce that the Beta version of Windows Live Writer is available for download today.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.
Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone.
Writer has lots of features which we hope make for a better blogging experience. Some of the ones we are most excited about include:
WYSIWYG Authoring
The first thing to notice about Writer is that it enables true WYSIWYG blog authoring. You can now author your post and know exactly what it will look like before you publish it. Writer knows the styles of your blog such as headings, fonts, colors, background images, paragraph spacing, margins and block quotes and enables you to edit your post using these styles.
Writer also includes other views including HTML source-code editing and web preview mode.
Now you don’t have to waste time going through the process of publishing, refreshing, previewing, and tweaking your post to get it looking the way you want. It’s all right there in Writer as you create your post. Photo Publishing
Writer makes inserting, customizing, and uploading photos to your blog a snap. You can insert a photo into your post by browsing image thumbnails through the “Insert Picture” dialog or by copying and pasting from a web page.
Once you’ve inserted the picture, Writer provides contextual editing tools to modify size, text wrapping, borders, and apply graphic effects. Writer also allows you specify a smaller thumbnail to that will link to a larger image for detailed viewing.
Photos can be either uploaded directly to your weblog provider (if they support the newMediaObject API) or to an FTP server.
Map Publishing
Whether you are blogging about a vacation or a political conflict, maps are a great help in engaging the imagination of your readers. You can do this using Writer's ability to insert a Windows Live Local map directly into a post.
Even better is that the map can be customized directly within Writer - including changing the view to show road, aerial or bird's eye detail and by adding pushpins (including custom links and/or photos for each pushpin).
When readers click on the map they get a larger view on the Windows Live Local site. Writer SDK
Already thinking of other cool stuff you want to insert into your blog? Good!
The Windows Live Writer SDK allows developers to extend the capabilities of Writer to publish additional content types. Examples of content types that can be added include:
Images from online photo publishing sites
Embedded video or audio players
Product thumbnails and/or links from e-commerce sites
Tags from tagging services
We can't wait to see all the things people cook up with the SDK!
Compatibility
Writer is a great client for Windows Live Spaces but also works with other weblogs including Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress (and many others).
We want Writer to work well with every blogging service out there. If you can’t get Writer to work with your blog, we want to know.
Stay Tuned
We will continue to post updates and other information on the product to this Space in the coming weeks. Please subscribe to our RSS feed or visit again soon to get the most current information on Windows Live Writer.
I want to thank all of you for posting your feedback on spaces. When I read them, I noticed that many of the things you reported were spot on, and would be great things to have. I'd like to call out a few that I liked (I liked many more, but can't post everything):
Wes: "We shouldn't need workarounds." This is my professional motto and I'd gladly paste a bumper sticker with that message on my door at work (Not on my car though, sorry. You never know if some workaround-loving-extremist is itching to scratch your door.). I hate workarounds. I hope we aren't making that necessary too often, but this is alwys going to be there, isn't it? You guys are always one step ahead, finding a way to use spaces that we didn't think of :)
Elaine, Liz: More feminine themes, better themes. Definitely agree that we can add even more themes for you. You know what I find tough? I don't have a particularly good imagination when it comes to figuring out what most people might find pretty on their websites. I'd love to know, though. Perhaps you guys could include a link to a style you like? Just a thought. Love the Christmas, special occasions idea, too. Note, though, that we do have Birthday themes. You know what'd be tight? Having the birthday theme come on on your birthday, without you doing it yourself. What do you think?
Justin P: Photo limit counter. Agree that this would be good, especially when you're always uploading lots of pictures.
Baltazaar: "A posting permission list....sticky articles" - Good idea. The sticky articles idea is especially important in a forum-oriented setting. I'm a car fanatic, and I find it very useful to have articles about detailing and upgrades made sticky.
Eddie: Transferring content... This is indeed a good idea, but it's a bit more difficult than initially expected. For example, while transferring the space is straightforward, transferring the friends list and messenger buddy information is not. And currently, your friends list follows your space. When your space is deleted, it's gone, too. Page for drawing... definitely good idea.
Now, here's another exercise. I'd like to understand what you guys do with your space, and what you want to do with it. For example, what do you use it for? Do you use it to express things about yourself? Do you use it for a community, to discuss topics, plan picnics, host competitions via the comments thing? Do you use it as a guest book? Do you use it to share a hobby, like discuss cars, horses, etc?
And, what are things you want to do with it, that you cannot? I'm not talking about specific details like not having custom HTML, etc. I mean your intentions. I refer to, say, wanting to leave a voice message on someone's box, or draw a picture of an ugly cow on your ex-best friend's space, or buy stuff. Whatever it is, say it, and don't feel shy to want crazy stuff, as long as it's legal and rational enough ;-) For example, don't expect to host a porn site here anytime soon. Not that you'd do that, of course!
Sorry if I was a bit unavailable. I've been working on some of the feedback and cleaning up some issues like the one Eddie, Jose and other customers were seeing.
I browsed the Gadget gallery and saw a coule of new gadgets. One is a calendar one. I'm not sure what it does, exactly, but it looked interesting.
Thank you very much for your comments. The information has been very important and helpful to me.
We have presently made some changes to the system, and I'd like you guys to do the following exercise, the next time you see a problem. Please let me know what you see. Your reporting so far has been exact and precise, so keep it in the same format, please.
Next time you see a problem (page not found), do the following.
Let's say that the space you had a problem with is called "mike."
I've heard of folks complaining about not seeing people's spaces. Has any of you seen an empty page when trying to access someone's space? I'm not talking about "Access denied" here. I'm talking about a completely blank page that says "Page cannot be found," or something similar. If so, can you please tell me more about it? I want to fix this problem for you, and need to know some additional information. Specifically:
1) What time did you see this exactly?
2) When you next see this, can you try going to http://spaces.live.com? Can you please tell me if you see this URL successfully?
3) How long did you see this before the problem went away?
Thanks very much! I'm determined to get this addressed, and your input will be essential, as it always is.
Thank you very much for your comments. The information has been very important and helpful to me.
We have presently made some changes to the system, and I'd like you guys to do the following exercise, the next time you see a problem. Please let me know what you see. Your reporting so far has been exact and precise, so keep it in the same format, please.
Next time you see a problem (page not found), do the following.
Let's say that the space you had a problem with is called "mike."
I've heard of folks complaining about not seeing people's spaces. Has any of you seen an empty page when trying to access someone's space? I'm not talking about "Access denied" here. I'm talking about a completely blank page that says "Page cannot be found," or something similar. If so, can you please tell me more about it? I want to fix this problem for you, and need to know some additional information. Specifically:
1) What time did you see this exactly?
2) When you next see this, can you try going to http://spaces.live.com? Can you please tell me if you see this URL successfully?
3) How long did you see this before the problem went away?
Thanks very much! I'm determined to get this addressed, and your input will be essential, as it always is.
Ok. I have designated this post to be a feedback box. Tell me your honest opinions and suggestions for the next version of Spaces. Just to show you that I actually read your stuff, I will create a Suggestion Box that documents your feedback. Not all comments will make it there, but most will. The list will be visible in my space.
Here are some ideas to start with:
1) More Themes.
2) Even faster pages.
Update: Gee, thanks guys! You're going to make me work long hours just to read this. Just kidding :-) This is great feedback. Of course, the Suggestion Box idea is gone to hell; if I put everything you aske for in it, my Space might sink the Internet. What I'll do instead is consolidate your feedback into different categories and submit it to my team. Thanks again, and keep them coming!
PS Elaine - I'm not sure what made you think we didn't have female graphic artists... maybe I don't want to know the answer :-) We definitely have them, and we occasionally hire other companies to design the themes. I doubt any of them are male-only outfits, though. I'll submit your feedback nonetheless.
I've heard of folks complaining about not seeing people's spaces. Has any of you seen an empty page when trying to access someone's space? I'm not talking about "Access denied" here. I'm talking about a completely blank page that says "Page cannot be found," or something similar. If so, can you please tell me more about it? I want to fix this problem for you, and need to know some additional information. Specifically:
1) What time did you see this exactly?
2) When you next see this, can you try going to http://spaces.live.com? Can you please tell me if you see this URL successfully?
3) How long did you see this before the problem went away?
Thanks very much! I'm determined to get this addressed, and your input will be essential, as it always is.
Ok, I admit that I'm breaking the rules. This is supposed to be about work, but I thought I'd sneak this in.
I am one of the folks who don't appreciate a good Gin & Tonic as an acquired taste. It's friggin love at first sight! Acquired taste is what someone gets after being force-fed animal fertilizer for a year. Or, worse, pasta from my work cafeteria.
A great gin & tonic, on the other hand, is a magical experience. The author of the article below agrees, too. It has the qualities that are HUGE to me - a product that shines because of its simplicity and elegance, yet trips people who make the foolish mistake of mistaking simplicity for easy. G&T is so easy to make right, but even easier to make wrong. The use of a beverage gun explains why most bars I've visited made such deflated G&Ts. I'm going to try the recipe in the article and see how much better my drink is.
My favorite gin is Tanqueray Ten. TT&T is what life in the big city is all about. Hell Yeah!
Audience: If you're interested in having a gadget on your space, this is for you.
Gadgets for your Space are found in two chief areas.
Pre-created gadgets
The first area provides a few gadgets that Spaces has already created for you. Find these in your Customization page, by clicking the "Customize" link when editing your space.
Windows Live Gallery
Go to the portal. The second place is the Windows Live Gallery. It's at http://gallery.live.com. Think of this place as a massive portal for everything Windows Live. Gadgets are just one of the many things you'll find there.
Browse. Click on the Gadgets link, or click here. I recommend you browse the selection first (http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?l=1). Here, you'll see a bunch of different ways to find a gadget you like.
Select a gadget. To find a gadget for your space, focus on the gadgets that have a "Add to your space" link. These gadgets will work in Windows Live Spaces. Check them out using the "Preview" button, and if you like what you see, just click on the "Add to your space" link. That should take you back to your space, where you'll have a chance to arrange the gadget in the right spot in your space.
I haven't seen a lot of gadgets for Windows Live Spaces yet. Here are the ones I've found so far:
One of my personal favorites is the Live Clock. I hope they have it for Spaces soon. I'd also love for it to be customizable, so I can have a Rolex version to bling it a bit.
This isn't a lot yet; give it some time, and I'm sure you'll see more gadgets pop up in the Gallery. I'll also try to check it once in a while, to see if there are cool ones you might be interested in. Please do the same and post a note here, if you find something exciting.
This post is the first of several I promised - it's a simple explanation about Gadgets and how to create them.
This post is not for those who're only interested in using gadgets. I write about that later. Rest of you, let's move on.
Required Reading
http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8AA773FE0A12B9E3!23013.entryStop rolling your eyes. I am not leading you to yet another webpage that makes you long for a car repair manual instead. This is a very good introduction to what Gadget development is all about. It goes through the key steps of gadget development for Live Spaces.
Basics
A gadget is a mini-application that essentially consists of three important pieces. These are the manifest, the style and the code. For those who prefer a more nerdy definition, they are the XML, the CSS and the JS files respectively.
Manifest. Confession: What the hell is a manifest? This is one of the many words I did not even know existed, until I started working in the computer industry. It's kinda like "ping" and "online" and "Dodgeball." I personally hate this word, because it's a difficult word that doesn't really mean anything. No wonder it's hardly used in a book. Have you ever read that word in a Toni Morrison novel? What about Tom Clancy? In the gadget world, think of it as the Gadget's business card. Every gadget needs to identify itself to the rest of the world. When you share a business card, you share key pieces of information essential to others about you. A gadget is an important application whose sole purpose in life is to be of value to someone else. Everything that is important about that gadget to that someone else is described in the gadget manifest.
Summary: The manifest is a file that serves as the gadget's business card.
My name, my code, my style. Just business.
So what's in this manifest? Is it a bunch of 1's and 0's? You're gonna be shocked. The stuff in there is actually readable. Maybe not quite on par with Harry Potter, but it's straightforward. It contains a bunch of information essential to a gadget. What's essential? Its name, of course. Sure enough, you'll see it there. What else? Its code, right? Well, the manifest has a URL to the gadget's code, too. Because most gadgets are visual - a gadget also has attributes that define its user-interface, or style. The location of its style description is also found in the gadget. That's three main things. There are more, but these are the most important.
Summary: A gadget manifest is like its business card. It is a human-readable file that contains its name and URLs to its key parts. Some of its key parts are its code and its style.
Here's an example of an actual manifest. The title is in purple, the code URL is in green, and the style URL is in blue.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:binding="http://www.live.com"> <channel> <!-- Specifies the name of your Gadget --> <title>Hello World</title> <link>http://www.microsoft.com</link> <!-- Gives a short description of your Gadget --> <description>A sample hello world binding.</description> <!-- Specifies the default locale for your Gadget --> <language>en-us</language> <!-- Specifies the JavaScript class that defines your Gadget (this object must be defined in the JavaScript linked to below) --> <binding:type>Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget</binding:type> <item> <!-- Specifies the JavaScript file that contains the code for your Gadget --> <link>http://localhost/Gadgets/Hello/HelloWorldGadget.js</link> </item> <item> <!-- Specifies the css file that contains the styles for your Gadget --> <link binding:type="css">http://localhost/Gadgets/Hello/HelloWorldGadget.css</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
Code. The gadget manifest contains, among other things, a URL to its code. What exactly is in the code? I'll go into more details later, but will give you a "Sales VP summary." The code in a gadget is some text written in a language that is executed by another program that runs in Spaces. This program is called the Framework. When the framework looks at the code, it knows exactly what to do to create the gadget and make it useful to its audience. How? The code in the gadget, written in Javascript, describes the gadget as a Javascript class. This class has a name and contains code. You can actually put many classes in the same code file, so the name is how the Framework knows to find the correct code for the gadget. How does the framework find the right name? You guessed it - from the business card - the gadget manifest. When the framework creates a gadget, it inspects its business card, looking for its code URL and style. It also looks for the class name. After it has fetched the code, it looks for the class mentioned in the manifest and creates that class. Here's an example of a code file that contains a gadget class. The gadget class is actually the one mentioned in the manifest example above. The class name is Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // // Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2006. All Rights Reserved. // // Project: Web Gadget SDK Sample // // File: HelloWorldGadget.js // //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// register your Gadget's namespace registerNamespace("Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK");
// define the constructor for your Gadget (this must match the name in the manifest XML) Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget = function(p_elSource, p_args, p_namespace) { // always call initializeBase before anything else! Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget.initializeBase(this, arguments);
this.dispose = function(p_blnUnload) { // Usually, you would add your dipose code here, but we have nothing to dispose for this Gadget
// always call the base object's dispose last! Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget.getBaseMethod(this, "dispose", "Web.Bindings.Base").call(this, p_blnUnload); } Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget.registerBaseMethod(this, "dispose"); } Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget.registerClass("Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget", "Web.Bindings.Base");
I will go into details later. For now, if this looks a bit strange, don't worry. The important thing to note here is that all gadget classes will have the same basic structure as the class I've pasted above. This basic structure defines the gadget and it's exactly what you need to have in your own gadget's class in its code file. More details about the basic structure later.
Style (in a CSS file). All the things that make the gadget become visible to your eyes define its style. These are stuff like its colors, the pretty fonts, the ugly lines, whatever. All of them go here. The style is stored in a file called the gadget CSS file. As you imagined, you define all your styles in the CSS language, and put them in this file. Put the location of this file in the manifest (see above). Here's an example of the CSS file that contains the styles for the example above.
It was a pretty brief file, wasn't it? That's because this gadget doesn't really do much except have a blue color with bold text. You can add much much more. Notice that class name above the style attributes. This is not accidental. What this is saying is that the styles in this CSS apply only to the gadget whose class is Microsoft.Live.GadgetSDK.HelloWorldGadget. If you have many gadgets and want to store the styles in one file, you can put them all there, and won't have to worry about mixing them up, thanks to the class name.
Summary
A gadget fundamentally consists of three things: Its business card, or manifest, held in a manifest XML file, its code, held in a Javascript file and its style, held in a CSS file.
I'll plunge into the devil's details in a future post. For now, explore a few gadget files from the Samples Website and see how they're similar to each other.
Phew - we're done - and present to you our new and shiny Windows Live Spaces! Thanks for your patient wait. For those of you who want to know about this release, check out the Spacecraft post below. We have a social network, a gadget framework, a brand spanking new UI, many bug fixes, performance improvements at both the client and server, and much more. Everyone in Spaces is excited about helping you take full advantage of the new powerful tools in this release. Enjoy! And keep your feedback coming, either via the feedback link below, or via blog comments. The usual. You know the drill.
We just released, so bear with us a bit, as the site tries to settle down and the performance quirks are ironed out. I'll be talking more about the features later - for now, explore and enjoy.
We’re thrilled to announce that Windows Live Spaces has just released and we hope you’re loving it! We’ve talked about some of the cool new features of Windows Live Spaces, but if you’re not sure where to start, here are a couple of tips:
1. Set-up your friends list. Simply add the new Friends Module to your space, or click here to automatically add it to your space, and start inviting your friends. Once your friends accept your invitation, they will appear to visitors of your space. You can also explore your contacts’ friends (and their friends too) directly from Windows Live Messenger. Simply click on your contact’s Messenger icon to view their contact card, and then click on the “View this contact’s Friends list” icon on the bottom right hand corner of the contact card. This will launch the cool new Friends Explorer feature that will allow you to easily navigate through lists of friends.
2. Add gadgets. Jazz up your space by adding cool new gadgets. All you need to do is click on the “Customize” link in your Space when you are in the editor mode, and then click on the link titled “Add gadgets from Windows Live Gallery” to be taken to the Windows Live Gallery where you can select gadgets you want to add to your space. Check out the “Updated Spaces” gadget we just added to The Spacecraft! You can add this gadget automatically to your space too by simply clicking
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