MSN Spaces & Yahoo 360°

I recently bought one digi cam, Kodak CX7430. Unlike few of my other friends, I am not very trendy in spending money for every new thing arriving in the market. That's the reason that so far I was managing with the traditional camera. With the new camera, it was the time for me to take my snaps and update all my profiles with it. I did it on Yahoo Profiles, Messenger, my blog page, Skype and all other places except my Windows Messenger it doesn't support. So I decided to download MSN messenger.

Needless to say that I don't like Bill Gates very much. Not because he is rich and I am not, its because of his anti competition policies. Unfortunately many of my friends use MSN messenger. So far I had been using Windows Messenger to talk to them. But now the time had come for me to download the MSN messenger as I couldn't put my photo there :-).

I went to the MSN site to download the messenger. On the top right corner of the site I saw "Claim your space with MSN Spaces". I had read about MSN Spaces free service in news last month but didn't elaborate it. I was wondering what it is and how it works. I clicked on the link and took a brief idea of it. I don't like praising MS but if they do something good, I have to. I liked their concept of MSN Space. Actually its all about having your web space where you can post categorized blogs, keep photo albums, music listings, links etc etc. Like a personal website. Its integrated with MSN messenger. You can keep private contents where only your MSN friends can have access. When you update your content, your friends will get notifications on their MSN messenger. Sounds good na.. Why to left behind, I signed up immediately - http://spaces.msn.com/members/shivanandt/

As I said before I don't like Bill Gates very much, so now I started looking for alternates. While searching on the web I found that Yahoo is also about to launch the same concept known as Yahoo 360°. Now, I was happy to find an alternate.

I checked on their website http://360.yahoo.com/reg/whatis.html and was pleased that it offers everything what MSN space does. However its under beta and hopefully should be made public soon.

Interaction between internet users is increasing everyday. Website portals keep bringing new ideas to keep their users. Its one of such efforts and I feel its good. Its going to be next big hit after the Email, Chat & IM. There were few sites like it before, like hi5.com but MSN Space and Yahoo 360° will capture more share because of their huge user base of IM software. These contents are integrated with IMs so your friends will get notification instantly when the content is updated. They don't have to come to your site just to see if you have something new.

Ok, bye for now. Go and start building your pages. Have fun.
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