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Redmond, Washington - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 25, 2006 - According to data released by independent consultant, comScore Networks Inc., of Reston, Virginia, MSN Spaces is themost widely used blogging service worldwide with more than 100 millionunique visitors.

comScore World Metrix’s proprietary audience report for April 2006showed the total number of unique visitors to MSN Spaces has more thandoubled in the past 12 months, from 41.65 million to 101 million.

Figurescompiled by comScore Media Metrix indicate that during April 2006, nearlyone in seven Internet users worldwide had visited MSN Spaces. Peter Daboll, CEO of comScore Media Metrix commented, ”Blogging as a category has shown consistent and rapid growth over thelast year all around the world and shows no signs of slowing down anytimesoon. The trend in moreuser-generated content represents a shift in the way that media is createdand consumed online.”

According to the company, MSN Spaces allows consumers to create personal Internet sites wherethey can express themselves in a variety of ways and interact with theimportant people in their lives. The service provides people with a place tocreate and update a web log, or blog, as well as share photos, musicplaylists and more. For example, more than 6 million photos are uploaded tothe service each day, with more than 2.5 billion photos uploaded since MSNSpaces launched as a beta service in December 2004. Now available in 30 markets and 16 languages, the next version of MSNSpaces, called Windows Live Spaces, is expected to launch later thisyear with additional functionality including a social networking serviceand the ability for developers to create gadgets, new features developed byhobbyists and partners, that can be added to a Space by users.

Moz Hussain, Group ProductManager at Microsoft Corp. commented, ”Consumers are enjoying MSN Spaces in record proportions as theyembrace the ability to more easily share their stories and stay in touchwith the people they care about most. As more people discover how easy this serviceis to use and how it enables them to share so many different things withthe people they care about most, we’re confident that MSN Spaces willcontinue as the world’s most popular blogging destination.”

MSN and Windows Live MSN attracts more than 465 million unique users worldwide per month.With localized versions available globally in 42 markets and 21 languages,MSN is a world leader in delivering compelling programmed contentexperiences to consumers and online advertising opportunities to businessesworldwide. Windows Live, a new set of personal Internet services andsoftware, is designed to bring together in one place all the relationships,information and interests people care about most, with enhanced safety andsecurity features across their PC, devices and the Web. MSN and WindowsLive will be offered alongside each other as complementary services. SomeWindows Live services entered an early beta phase on Nov. 1, 2005; theseand future beta updates can be found at http://ideas.live.com.

To learn more about Windows Live, please visit: www.live.com.

For more information about MSN Spaces, please visit: http://spaces.msn.com.

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