March 10
Expo Meets Spaces
Today, we’re thrilled to launch our integration with
MSN Spaces. This integration allows you to post a free listing on
Expo and have an abstract and thumbnail image displayed automatically on the front page of your MSN Space. Visitors to your Space can view abstracts from your different Expo listings and click directly to view more information and communicate with you via IM or anonymous messaging.
Here’s why we’re particularly excited: one of the reasons we built Expo was to provide an easy experience to share and view listings with those you trust: your friends. MSN Spaces captures this vision as a great communication experience among both friends and the broader web community. By posting a listing on Expo, your Space is updated, your
MSN Messenger contact card is updated, and you gleam to your Messenger buddies. We hope that this automatic ‘promotion’ of your listing among those who share your interests provides the right kind of directed traffic to your listing.
Some early known issues:
- If you are creating a Space for the first time while adding a listing on Expo, you’ll need to go back and edit your listing to have it show up on your Space
- Some small UI tweaks are still underway
- Deep integration between Expo and your blog is currently only available with MSN Spaces
- If you post a private listing to your public space, we’ll warn you – but it will be public. Change your permissions on your Space or don’t opt-in to post automatically on your space if you don’t want the public to view your private listings.
Express yourself with blogging, photos, and now, tell your network of friends that you’ve got an extra ticket to the concert next weekend, you’re looking for a used laptop, you’re looking to sublet your apartment, you’re looking for a date. Do this by pulling your friends to your listings rather than pushing them!
Tell us what you think.
- Team Expo
Special thanks goes out to DeEtte, Charlie, Karen, Mike, Jay, MC, Kevin, Azure, Dare, Steve, and many others. Great people and fun to work with.
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