"Everyone thank you so much for your feedback, because of the comments we have read in The Spacecraft Greg Phipps one of our rock star Spaces Program Managers had this to say!
“Spaces has grown very quickly into one of the Web’s mega services. So quickly in fact that we just passed the 100MM user mark and have had to do some architectural changes to ensure that Spaces can be deployed in multiple data centers. We needed to deliver a system that allows for Spaces to be distributed across multiple data centers without requiring a URL that included the data center name. How unkewl would that be? Can you imagine telling your friends and family that the URL to your space was http://cluster25.dc1.spaces.msn.com/gphipps?
So we have developed a DNS (Domain Name System) based solution that allows us to redirect requests to the right data center and allows us to keep a better looking URL. Moving the Space name into the domain name is a requirement of that.
We also heard the pain we created for our users with the URL change made in our release in January and to help mitigate this upcoming name change we have worked with the following companies to proactively address the associated ranking issues:
Technorati
Weblogs
Feedster
PubSub.com
Bloglines
Ask.com
In addition, we have dialogues with the following search engine companies
Live Search
Yahoo
Google
I can’t promise that this will be a completely seamless transition; but rest assured we are working hard to make this as seamless as possible.
Doing the rearchitecture work and making the move to Live Spaces was not possible for a number of technical reasons. This is why we can’t move straight to the spaces.live.com name. However, we believe that when we do move to Live Spaces that will be the last time we have to change the URL. This really isn’t something we decided to do lightly. We have had to make a ton of tradeoffs from both a technical perspective and the impact to our users.”
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con Yahoo van a compartir msn y no recuerdo donde leí que incluso buscador, para tratar de acercarse a google, también es un rumor o lo habré leído mal el tema… que Yahoo pueda comprar Technorati, de ser algo así me creo que andarán mas ágiles. la direccion es mejor sin barra, pero los enlaces que se podria tener antes; quien los tuviera, me da que se han perdido y no solo los enlaces, los contadores, rss que estas ahi configurando y despues lo tienes que hacer de nuevo… bueno, algo es algo, si esta es la plataforma que alberga mas "blogs" sera que funciona bien