About Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces is your place on the Web to share your thoughts, photographs, and interests with others. Whether you want to meet like-minded people, write a blog (Short for weblog. The act of writing an online journal. Each entry typically contains personal thoughts and web links, with the newest entries listed first.) about your favorite music, or simply share your photos with friends and family, the tools you need are here.

• Create a profile
  Create a profile about yourself to share information such as your e-mail address, space address, or interests. You can share this information with your friends and family or other people on Windows Live.
• Protect your online identity
  Set permissions (A setting that lets you limit who sees your space, profile, or a photo album.) to control who can see your space, profile, and photo album. For more information about changing the permission setting for your space or your profile, see About setting permissions.
• Create a blog
  Share your opinions with friends and family or the world when you write in your online journal. Blog about anything, from movies you've seen to parties you've attended. You can blog daily, weekly, or whenever you want. You can also include a photograph or video with a blog entry to make your descriptions even richer.
• Share your photographs
  Create online photo albums to show off your digital photographs. Visitors to your space can view your photos in a slide show presentation and, if you allow it, make comments on your photos. You can store as many as 500 pictures each month on your space.
• Customize your space
  Make your space reflect your individuality. Change the background colors and graphics as well as the layout of information to give your space a unique look. You can decide what kind of content you want to include in your space, such as a custom RSS (Really Simple Syndication. A type of web feed designed for the easy sharing of headlines, blog posts, and other web content.) or ATOM (An XML-based syndication format that is used to publish headlines of the latest updates on blogs and websites for retrieval by users and other sites.) feed.
• Share your taste in music, books, and movies
  Create lists of your favorite music, books, or movies, and include links to other websites. Visitors can learn more about your favorites by following the links in your lists.
• Create a list of friends
  Create a list of friends and keep their contact card information on your space. When you explore other spaces that contain a friends list, you can add people from that list to your friends list and increase your network of online contacts.
• Share and store files with Windows Live SkyDrive Beta
  You can create public folders to share files with anyone in the world.
• Publish from your mobile phone
  Keep your space up to date, even when you're away from your computer. You can take a picture with your mobile phone and post the picture on your space. You can also send a text message from your mobile phone to your blog.
• Publicize your Windows Live Expo listings
  Windows Live Expo offers you a personalized online listing service, making it fun and easy to buy and sell items, search for bargains, and post classified advertisements to other Windows Live Expo users, all for free. You can post your listings on your space to make them visible to everyone who uses your space. For more information about posting listings on Windows Live Expo, see Windows Live Expo Help.