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Your new Spaces home page
Now when you log in, you’ll see a new page dedicated to keeping you up-to-date on changes to your space and what’s new with your Windows Live Messenger contacts.  In one glance you’ll see who has updated their space and who has added comments to your space.  Roll over their picture to see who’s updated their photos, who’s posted a blog entry, and who’s added new lists.

Messaging
Keep in touch with your Spaces friends and meet other people on Spaces by sending them messages. Just put your cursor over their profile picture and you’ll see a “Send a message” link.   You can also use the link in the Visitor tools module on a person’s space.

Guestbook
Add the guestbook module and people visiting your space can leave comments with rich formatting, including images and video. Add the guestbook to your space by clicking here.

Customization
There are many new customization options for Spaces, so you can better control how your space looks.

Custom background image
Now you can upload whatever picture you want from your computer and use it as the background of your space. Upload your image in the Customize menu under the Advanced tab.

Additional colors and themes
There are now more themes to choose from and an easy-to-use color picker. You can also change the fonts!

 Gadgets and Modules
With the changes we’ve made to gadgets and modules, now you can customize them to create the layout and design you want for your space.

Size and style
Most gadgets and modules can span the full width of a column, and you can now remove their borders or change their titles to whatever you want.

Other cool stuff
You can have multiple modules at the top or bottom of your space that span all of the columns – perfect for your space title and tagline. You can also have more than one version of the same gadget on your space. And if you’re on someone else’s space and see a module you like, you can add it to your space by clicking the “+” sign in the upper-right corner of the module.

Check out and install some spaces gadgets today from the Windows Live Gallery.

Photos
With over 18 million photos uploaded by Spaces users every day, we know that improving the experience of managing photos was important to you, so we added a few new features. 

Managing your photos
There’s a brand new page for viewing and editing albums on your space.

Viewing photos
There’s a new layout for the individual photo pages so it’s faster and easier to view your photos and see all of your comments at a glance.

Mobile
There’s been a dramatic increase in Spaces mobile usage over the past few months, and we wanted to provide great mobile interaction with Spaces. Here’s what’s new:

·         See at a glance the recent updates and comments on your space

·         Add, delete, view, and browse your friends

·         View profile information

Interested in learning more about mobile features for Spaces? Read this Space Craft blog entry

Lists
Lists are now easier to use – and they look even better.

Music lists
Now you can show specific music lists on your spaces home page as well as see multiple results when searching for music on Amazon to create your list.

Book lists
Same as with music! Search for the book and add the information and picture from Amazon.com to your list.

Looks better in narrow view
We’ve make some improvements to make your lists look better when in narrow columns on your space.

APIs and Feeds
We wanted to give you the ability to access your Spaces information from a variety of locations and services, so we added new RSS feeds and opened up our APIs to allow you more freedom. Go crazy with your Spaces data!   Visit: http://dev.live.com/spaces over the next few days for more information. Note: Only spaces with permissions set to “public” can use RSS feeds and APIs.

Profile Updates
There are some new, cool additions to profiles.

Enhanced contact updates preview
When you see a profile picture on Spaces, just put your cursor over the picture and you can see a lot more information about the person than ever before.

最近公司（微软）征集愿意被调查的用户，关于手机使用的。
步骤是这样的：
1. 填一张用户访谈甄别问卷。
2. 公司的研究人员会邀请所有填写问卷的人当中的一部分到公司，做一次面对面的访谈（公司在上海徐家汇港汇大厦）。时间大概在3月的第一或者第二个周末，大概需要2-3个小时。（当然做到访问的话，是有回报的~~~~~）
谢谢大家合作，有什么问题可以直接留言问我。

点击这里下载问卷，做完问卷以后，请email到azurenvelop@hotmail.com (注：in case you are wondering, 这个信箱并不是我的，是公司里一个跟我一样偏爱蓝色的极具艺术天赋的朋友的。)

好久没有在这里涂鸦了，过了年，又长了一岁，Spaces 又恰好在此时release 10.5， 忍不住地想留下些什么，兴许是想感叹岁月的流逝，兴许是想展望看不见的未来。

有太多东西再blog这段空白的日子中可以记录，但是真得太多了，我如何一件一件想起来呢。现在，我的思路到处在飘荡，请允许它的无序和凌乱。

说得通俗一点，我就是随便地写写，让我的一些跳跃的idea从敲着键盘的手指尖肆意的传递到电脑的屏幕上，如同接上电源的电路导电一般，虽然远不如那般严谨而有规律；这样的心态是最轻松最惬意的，反正我不是故意留些什么给别人看，反正我的文笔向来都不能让自己满意，我只是突然想好好用用我亲爱的母语了，就这样随便写写吧。

随便—好可爱的词语。小时候，第一次留意到它，是因为一个小故事，妻子问丈夫想吃什么菜，丈夫说随便，于是妻子认真的去菜场为夫君购置随便，问遍了每一家铺子，傍晚了，委屈的妻子空手而归，哭着告诉丈夫，因为没有一家铺子是卖随便的。

如今，这种情况应该不复存在吧。大学的时候，除了一种冷饮，叫随便，于是，当有人问我想吃什么冷饮，不爱零食的我犹豫着说随便时，阿姨就会毫不犹豫地拿出“随便”来给我。同理，一群人上馆子时，总是躲不掉的要点菜，我很无奈的说出随便时，服务生竟然也可以奋笔疾书，原来有道菜叫随便炒随便。

于是，我就在想，如果世界上有一种产品叫随便，当被毫无诚意的好事者追问着，你到底要什么礼物时，就可以很容易的脱身了。哈哈，岂不快哉。

另外，随机数应该广泛的被应用，当我懒得想，买哪个牌子的牙膏，到哪里去旅游，什么时候去穿耳洞时，只要我大叫一声，随便，随机数就会如同上天旨意一般为我挑选。

说了那么久，我其实无非就是想告诉/安慰自己，不是我懒，不愿意更新blog，只是我实在怕像本篇一样，耽误了那么多关爱我的人们的时间，污染着阳春白雪的视线，来阅读我随便写写的东西。长叹一声，我的生活范围有限，我没有灵动的文笔，于是，我只能对不起大家了。

新年了，第二次离开自己的亲朋好友过年，甚至都没有提前好好通知他们一声，末了，让我随便的致歉，并真诚的补上一句：新年快乐！