Microsoft's blogging site, MSN Spaces, is getting an update, according to an exclamatory post on the team's official blog, The Space Craft. Users can now post from three email addresses instead of one, can upload up to 500 photos a month, display their Xbox Gamercard, and so on. Also, the commercialisation has started:
Great news for those of you living in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France or Japan. You can now make money with MSN Spaces. You heard me. Make Money! With Amazon.com if you sign up for an associates ID, whenever anyone buys a book from Amazon.com by linking through from your space, you get a portion of that. So make sure to put up all of your favorite and maybe not so favorite books online. In the same vain (sic) if you live in the US or Canada, you can earn money by allowing Kanoodle ads to run in your space.
Comment: MSN Spaces probably has around 30 million spaces, while MySpace has more than 50 million, and Xanga could be between the two. How many are active is anybody's guess, and no doubt many teenagers have spaces on all three. Either way, the relatively sudden emergence of more than 100 million social networking blogs is a significant phenomenon.
