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They’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on making your space load faster and adding cool video features; but they know that you all LOVE new themes and customization options.

So they asked a few of the designers from Windows Live to create some new default themes for you all.   AND, if you’re into basketball – there are a bunch of LeBron James themes under the sports category as part of the upcoming LeBron challenge on MSN (more on that coming soon).

Themes by category:

Art:
· Street Graffiti

Music and entertainment:
· Music Machine

Nature:
· Cat Tails
· Garden Lawn
· Moon set

Objects:
· Ropes

Patterns:
· Light Stream
· Tiles
· Wallpaper Stripes

Sports:
· LeBron Book
· LeBron Graffiti
· LeBron Hoops
· King James
· Slick LeBron

Check them out below:

Note: All of these themes are available in English speaking countries now and will be available worldwide at the end of the month with the exception of the Lebron themes which are currently only available in  the US.

Also, don’t forget that if you’re using the “Colors” feature to change the colors in your space (for text, links, backgrounds etc.), that your colors will be applied to the new themes when you browse through them.  To see the themes without your colors, go to Customize > Colors and click the link to “Clear your settings and use the default colors” (if you don’t click Save, you won’t lose your custom colors if you decide you don’t like any of the new themes. Make sure you click Cancel!) 

Many of you have asked us how you can post videos on your Space. We wanted to let you know that as of the last release, there are now three ways to post videos on Spaces depending on how you want to present the videos. You can get information below as well as on the Spaces Video information page.

Option 1: Share videos that you like on Spaces
Spaces offers the Video Player for MSN Soapbox gadget for people that want to both upload personal videos and also showcase multiple videos on Spaces in one gadget.

You can also include videos that other people have uploaded onto the Internet sites by using the Universal Video Player gadget or the YouTube Video gadget.

Option 2: Embed a video in a blog entry
Have you ever written a blog entry and wanted to include a video to play directly in your blog entry? Now you can do it on Spaces!

When you compose a blog entry on Spaces, just click the "Embed Videos" link at the bottom of the Compose Entry page and paste the video embed code into the window.

Option 3: Quickly share and control your videos with Mixpo on Windows Live Spaces
Spaces has partnered with Mixpo to offer a cool new way to post your videos, create slideshows, add annotations and other stuff with a gadget they call a Mixcard.

Mixpo is easy to use and fast to get the videos into you Space – your videos are viewable online in seconds. In addition, with Mixpo, you are in total control to change, add, delete or modify your Mixcard from your computer without having to re-upload the videos. Now Spaces users can really share their digital stories in a creative and safe way.

You can learn more about the different video offerings for Spaces here.

Cheers