What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Roland Tanglao — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:29:00 GMT

i vote for #1 because I know MarsEdit supports it and I believe BlogJet does it!

but i will take #2 if it's clearly documented so other blogging systems can adopt it!

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Greg — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:55:00 GMT

"...there is also the question of whether it makes business sense to do support blog posting APIs..."

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to post to a blog from Word? Or Outlook? InfoPath?

Create a public API and it WILL be used. Not having one will turn people away to other free services that do...

Also a public API will let others innovate in ways that you can't imagine. Or add features... (like an editor with spell checking).

What is the primary target for Spaces, Readers or Posters?

If Readers, then you want to make it as easy as possible for people to post... Why tie their hands and force them to post via a web page?

Also isn't Smart Clients one of the messages coming from MS?

I don't mean to rant, but I guess that statement struck a cord with me...

If the current API's don't make sense, build your own. (yeah, I know, you won't win either way...). I would think that a Blog/post/atom/etc like API that fulfills the your requirements could be used in many ways my MS (wouldn't it be cool to have it as part of SharePoint?)

Anyway, thanks for listening. :)

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Christian Romney — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:15:00 GMT

Also, it sucks to have to hand-type your blogroll. OPML import would be nice.

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Paolo Marcucci — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:34:00 GMT

I'd vote for #2, but make it as compatible as possible with MetaWeblog and extensible for the future features. Also, make it so it can be implemented by other engines :)

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Dmitry Chestnykh (BlogJet) — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:19:00 GMT

I vote for Atom API. It's not supported by most clients (including BlogJet), so you'll force us to finally implement this damn API! :)

BTW, feel free to join us @ http://www.blogclients.info .

MSN Spaces

BlogJet weblog — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:24:00 GMT

Microsoft announced the launch of their own free hosted blogging service – <a href="http://spaces.msn.com/">MSN Spaces</a>. They <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2004/12/02/273762.aspx">do not offer API at ...

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Szajd — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:34:00 GMT

Hi,

Isn't there a way I could import my previous blog's content? At least make a way to import XML data.

--Szajd

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Dare Obasanjo — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 01:35:00 GMT

Dmitry,
It seems to me to be extremely counter productive to adopt an API which you admit no tools currently support as opposed to using one which is widely supported.

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Fred — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 05:13:00 GMT

Take this comment as a trackback. There are some of my thoughts about this new and really interesting MSN service:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/stories/2004/12/02/msnSpacesAnotherStarInMsnsSpace.html

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Dmitry Chestnykh — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:24:00 GMT

Dare,
I don't think most blogging tools supports HTTPS/SSL. So, in any case, there will be something to implement.

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Dare Obasanjo — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:59:00 GMT

Dmitry,
True, but it is much less work for them to simply support HTTPS/SSL over their current support of existing APIs than ask them to implement a totally brand new API as well.

Our goals are to have as many clients as possible be able to interact with Spaces but also to ensure that users get a rich user experience. This goals are somewhat contradictory since the first goal maps to option 1 while the second maps more to option 2. Doing Atom is going the middle road which achieves neither of our goals.

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

chadbr — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:40:00 GMT

Hey Dare-

I can't beleive this is even a question. I don't really care what API you use - but there has to be an API and extensibility mechanisms if you want user buy-in. 3rd party smart client tools would make this a "killer app".

Chad

re: What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?

Dmitry Chestnykh (BlogJet) — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:14:00 GMT

Dare,
I've just released BlogJet 1.2 #33 RC with SSL support:

http://blogjet.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/12/14/205152.html

so you can begin implementing MetaWeblog (prefered with MovableType extensions) API ;)

MSN Spaces doesn't support blog clients

Seth-Tech — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:50:00 GMT

I wondered if Microsoft's new MSN Spaces blogging system supported the MetaWeblog API, or any of the popular blogging tools. I looked it up, and the disappointing answer is a decided no. I understand them wanting to have an API...

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