New Support for MSN Spaces

We have been working with MSN Spaces for the past two months in a closed beta to support their implementation of the MetaWeblog API. Many thanks to Dare and the MSN Spaces team. We were especially happy that they they paid attention to time zone issues and unicode support because we have a lot of international users.

They just announced that their API is now widely available so we have updated our Blog Writer (Build 145) for official support of MSN Spaces.

Here's how you set up the Blog Writer to post to your MSN Space:

First, you need to turn on email publishing for your MSN Space. Sign in to your MSN Space and go to Settings>Email Publishing. On that page, enter a secret word where prompted.

Now download and install Build 145 of the Blog Writer. Go to Blog Account Settings (under the Tools menu) and click on the New Account button to start the wizard.

Enter the following for Blog Account information:

• Account name: Whatever name you want to display in the sidebar for your MSN Space
• Account type: MSNSpaces
• Account username: the name of your MSN Space, typically found at the end of your MSN Space URL, e.g. http://spaces.msn.com/members/<your name here>
• Account password: the secret word you entered on the email publishing page.

Notes:
1. MSN Spaces does not allow fileupload so you need to set up a separate FTP server in the media repository to host your images.
2. MSN Spaces allows only one category per post. Click on the Refresh Online button in the category dialog to see your list of categories for the first time.
3. You cannot set a future date and time for your post - it will default to the current date and time.

Let us know if you have any questions by writing to our support email.

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