Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

re: Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

Chris — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:55:44 GMT

Totally agree with your comments. Given the possibilities of collaboration and integration with Messenger and Mail, Spaces has done poorly at leveraging the existing friends networks.

There's still hope with Wave 3 on the way, but its just becoming catchup now.

re: Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

quikboy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:42:00 GMT

It's not even a social network. More or less, it's where users can blog, share photos, and have some applications to display. That's about it. More of a personal site than a social networking site. There aren't even networks or groups to get into.

Plus even with the improved UI, it just doesn't feel as fluid and easy to go through. And it doesn't have any true compelling reasons to use it then all the other real social networking sites. Live Spaces is still kind of cruddy.

re: Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

Alber1690 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:57:45 GMT

What has really turned me (and maybe everybody else) off from Live Spaces is why it's gotten really slow to load each page if you don't have WLM running in the background. They have something on Spaces that tries to open WLM every time you load a page, and if it's not opened, it really slugs down the experience. Others who don't know why the site is suddenly slow and that they could prevent it by opening messenger [but don't have to sign in] might just get ticked off and leave. It's just one of the many little details that could end up creating the door to Facebook and MySpace. Although this is just US market share and Spaces performs really well in foreign markets, this should still be some sort of wake-up call for Spaces team.

re: Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

absorbation — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:18:13 GMT

Honestly Windows Live Spaces offers nothing for me which another website has done better. It just seems to be one of those services that is just there, and people set up because they use Windows Live Messenger and discovered it by accident.

www.msgstuff.com/.../423

re: Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

Mephiles — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:27:28 GMT

@ vipwoody

I don't think they should use PHP. For me, WLS is very fast.

re: Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

vipwoody — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:00:06 GMT

There should be more work on WLSpaces, I don't consider it as a social network. It is not as easy to maneuver from friend to friend and application to application as in Facebook for example. More integration should be done with the WLMessenger and blogging through MSN would be a nice idea. WLSpaces is slow to open and hard to navigate. Maybe Microsoft should change the way it codes WLSpaces and use PHP?