Windows Live Spaces Snappy Urls
We use Windows Messenger a fair bit at work - even in the same office it’s ideal for, for example, sending links to a colleague to take a look at. And of course when people are working remotely, it’s an ideal way to stay in touch. But, it still suffers from the usual Microsoft problem of being over complicated!
I accidentally deleted a contact from it, and when I tried to re-add them, the link at the top just wouldn’t work (this is in a Vista machine). So I started messing around and before I knew it, a browser window popped up asking me to enter some details so that my contacts could stay up to date with my contact details… fair enough I thought, should only take a few minutes.
So I entered some of the required information then it all became just to much of a pain in the neck to complete - it was no longer a 2-minute job, but was looking like it could take quarter of an hour. So, being busy ;-), I gave up.
Next thing I know, there’s an email in my inbox from Windows Live Spaces welcoming me to “Windows Live(TM) Spaces!”. They have very kindly allocated my own URL where I can publish all sorts of things… is it a nice snappy domain? Something easy to remember and spell? Something you can tell someone in the pub and they might remember it? Well… its…
http://cid-00037ffe84eff1a2.spaces.live.com/
Got that? Easy peasy. No-one could ever forget that URL.
And, helpfully, the email went on to explain that this site could be viewed on a mobile with the URL:
“You can also access your space from a mobile device using this web address:
http://cid-00037ffe84eff1a2.mobile.spaces.live.com/ ”
Now that should be a snap to enter on a mobile 
Duncan