1月11日
1.5 Million, Baby!
Two great pieces of news today!
First off, some exciting news for us folks on the MSN Spaces team about how many people are out there using Spaces. We’ve been live now for less than six weeks, but the rate at which people have signed up and started their own Space has been phenomenal. We just found out that we hit the 1.5 million Spaces mark earlier today. You can imagine how excited we are that we’ve had that many people sign up in that short of a time, with people still signing on at an explosive rate.
One of the benefits of having that many vocal, passionate people involved in our beta is that we get a ton of great feedback. One of the feature areas that we get the most comments on is our Messenger integration, since it lets people catch up with all their friends’ Spaces every time they log in. I don’t know about you, but I’m addicted to gleams 
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That leads me to my second piece of news: the MyMSN team is about to deploy a new version of MyMSN that supports arbitrary RSS feeds. That opens up a whole new way to catch up with all the Spaces you read. Since all public Spaces have RSS feeds associated with them, you can add a Space’s RSS feed link to your MyMSN page, and read what is going on at Jay’s Krib right next to the New York Times!
We’re working on a more elegant link that we can include on a Space, so it’s brain dead simple to add the Space you are viewing to your MyMSN page. But for now, you can click here to check it out. The URL looks something like this:
http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://spaces.msn.com/members/emcee/feed.rss&ru=http://spaces.msn.com/members/emcee
It’s cool to see yet another opportunity to integrate our products together. 2005 is shaping up to be another cool year in MSN, and we’re just getting started.
By the way, If you are wondering when we hit one million users, it was December 26th. Ryan was very upset that this didn’t happen on December 25th, because it was the only thing he had asked Santa for .
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