LiveSide on Spaces: Blog

Windows Live: What we use on LiveSide

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:11:23 GMT

Windows Live Tags: Clubhouse, LiveSide, Spaces, How-to

At LiveSide.net, we write about Windows Live, but we also use most if not all of the Windows Live tools and products. Of course we need to keep up with our research, but we use Windows Live because it works for us. In this series, we’ll take a closer look at what we use and how we use them.

First up is Spaces, and although we host LiveSide.net on a dedicated server running Windows Server and Community Server (an ASP.net application), we’ve maintained a Spaces site, too. While we don’t post exclusively here often (and we’re doing this series to support our friends at the Windows Live Clubhouse), we’ve set up our Spaces site to aggregate our LiveSide feed here, and we keep our list of friends here, too. We get at least one or two friends requests every week, so the viral effect of more and more friends of friends coming to visit seems to be working.

Setting up a feed is easy: just add a feed module. Once you’ve signed in to Spaces, click on Customize>Add Module>Other>Feeds, like this:

Close the module dialogue box, save your changes, and then edit the new feed module you’ve created:

Our feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/liveside. Of course you can add us to your site, we’d love it!, but you can add in any feed you want to appear on your site. Look for the RSS icon on your favorite blog, copy the shortcut, and enter it in “Feed web address”. Save your changes, arrange the module where you want it to be in your layout, and your favorite feeds will now show up on your site. You can add more than one module to have multiple feeds.

Talking about No One Wants to Look Dumb

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:26:03 GMT

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No One Wants to Look Dumb

A funny music video for MSN that is sure to leave you verklempt.

Customized Backgrounds for Spaces, Cool!

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:37:11 GMT


	Here's our Hack MSN Spaces customized blog entry. To customize your Spaces, check out our post on LiveSide

Add LiveSide to your Space!

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:21:19 GMT

Adding modules to your space is pretty easy now - let's take the example of adding a LiveSide feed module to your space. All you have to do is look at the LiveSide module on this space, and click on the plus sign in the top right corner. Then click "Add to your space". This adds a Feeds module to your site. For some modules that's all you have to do, but to add feeds there's one more step.

When you click on add to your space, Spaces will take you to your space (you need to be signed in to the live id of the space you want to add to). Once you're there, you will see a "feed" module has been added. Click on edit on the feed module, and in the url box, fill it in with http://feeds.feedburner.com/liveside. (the http:// will already be there, just fill in the rest). You can change the title of the feed module, too (say, to: LiveSide is my Favorite Windows Live Site!!!)

Save your changes, and that's it! Now whenever we post some Windows Live news and information, the post title will show up on your site in the LiveSide feed module!

New Spaces features: play with them here!

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:13:26 GMT

Hey if you want to try out messages or any of the other new Spaces features feel free to send us a message!

ScottIsAFool: Live Writer Plugin - Spaces Emoticons

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:51:20 GMT

Here's a nice little tool from our friend Scott, a Windows Live Writer plugin that adds Emoticons to your Live Writer Spaces entries. Very nice!

Link to ScottIsAFool: Live Writer Plugin - Spaces Emoticons

Windows Live Spaces Tour

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:24:41 GMT

Moz, Spaces Group Program Manager, points out a Flash tutorial on how to add, edit, and manage Friends and Friends lists on Spaces. Although right now the music is driving me crazy, the tutorial is kind of cool. Check it out.

Link to Windows Live Spaces Tour

Spaces improvements

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:46:07 GMT

Spaces continues to improve, with many of the glitches that plagued the upgrade behind us now. And this word tonite from the Space Craft, that more bug fixes are just around the corner: http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8AA773FE0A12B9E3!24106.entry

Add to that, Thomas J is reporting that Statistics is fixed: http://t.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8450BABD710340F7!430.entry

Thanks to all of you who added LiveSide as your friend, we really appreciate it. We'll keep accepting friends, so pass the word along!

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Dealing with pending requests

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:16:29 GMT

Woohoo up to 44 Friends! Thanks for reading LiveSide!

One of the first things I heard about when Windows Live Spaces arrived was that dealing with pending requests could be a bit bothersome. So when I opened this new user account to manage LiveSide on Spaces, I was happy to find the pending requests feature in Messenger, which opens when I log on to the account.

Clicking on the pending request link takes me to a window where I can manage multiple requests at once. The requests can be for "active contact updates" (btw is the new name for Live Contacts the Spaces equivalent of IE7+?? I hope so), or for pending requests for friends.

(thanks Lebo and Maff for posing). Well hopefully you'll soon have lots of friends on Spaces and find this as useful as me. Of course you still have your (unread) email request in your inbox, although I think you can turn email notifications off. That's it for now. Another friends request just popped up as I was writing this, gotta go. You guys are great!

Welcome to LiveSide on Spaces

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:35:02 GMT

We thought we'd try out Spaces a bit, here, and give you a chance to add LiveSide as a friend on your Spaces page. Take a look around (not much to see, yet) and feel free to add LiveSide as your friend!