Microsoft are jumping onto the blogging bandwagon ages after everyone else and are to launch a blogging service at MSN. Even though they are very late to the party that won't worry Bill and his billions - they didn't bother with the interweb for a few years but they still muscled themselves into number one (users not performance!) browser spot within a very short time.
Hopefully the service will be massively feature rich - then BlogSpot (with Google's billions) can add lots of new features here just to keep up. So if anyone at BlogSpot is reading this here's what I wouldn't mind seeing:
- Trackbacks
- Backend comment administration
- Better search - currently, back end has full post search with crap keyword handling, front end has Google search which is hit and miss.
- Adding more sites to the ping list - see Ping-O-Matic for an object lesson in multiple pinging
- English date formats when you set Date Language to English (UK) instead of American ones - this one first please as you are doing internationalisation right now.
- Page stats - how hard can this one be? Very if you go by BlogSpot's experience with their own stat counting service, incredibly easy and powerful if you go by our experience of using StatCounter. It has to be easier to serve stats from your own servers but apparently not.
via Geek News Central (which I found via WebNymph!)
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Hopefully a bit more competition will be healthy and we'll get the lot - fingers crossed.
The users / performance thing is talking about now - it was just forestalling any pickiness. Didn't work! ;)
I went through a couple years of refusing to switch back to NS - IE was far and away the better browser for a long time.
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