I joined the rush late last night and signed up with Microsoft's new blogging serivce, MSN Spaces. I just wanted to grab the name hyku and look around a bit. I have not delved too deeply into the service yet, but here are my first thoughts.

The product is very typical of Microsoft. The service is loaded with features and has tight integration with their other products and services. The result? A very crowded and busy interface. Compare their templates with those of Blogger, especially Blogger's minima template.

Also for most of the afternoon today the service has been crawling. Hotmail flashbacks anybody? (Would a Hotmail flashback be a Hotflash?)

I'll play more this weekend and give an in-depth review.