Windows Live Spaces already dead, WordPress.com will only get 1% of 30M users - Joe Wilcox

Microsoft expects only about 1 percent of Windows Live Spaces bloggers to move to WordPress.com. If not there then where? In the e-mail exchange, one Microsoft executive asserts about the 30 million active Windows Live Spaces blogs: “Most are dead.”

my two cents

Did anyone believe for a second that Microsoft would hand over something that was an active community? Of course it’s dead, and once again it’s proof that old school blogging is dead and stream media, like tumblr, is the future.

MSN Spaces Closing, Becomes WordPress.com

cameronmoll:

Matt Mullenweg:

As just announced on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Windows Live (formerly MSN) Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30m+ users to WordPress.com. Four years ago I was fairly worried as every internet giant (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google) had a hosted blogging service. Now only Blogger remains, and is firmly in our sights.

Blogger, no doubt, has the lion’s share of everyday bloggers. But if I were Matt, I might be more concerned about Tumblr as the most credible (and future) threat to WordPress.com.

my two cents

Yes, Cameron is right. The threat to Wordpress is not Blogger, Six Apart (who was purchased by VideoEgg last week), or other old school blogging tools. The competitive challenge will come from Tumblr and other more social stream media. Of course,  Wordpress could adopt an open follower model for users to internally follow blogs, a la Tumblr, like Typepad did last year with the Micro release.