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Microsoft Launches YouTube Rival In Public Beta

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/17/2007 01:28 PM [ Print | 4 comment(s) ] · 1705 views

I-Week reports: Microsoft has launched in public beta MSN Soapbox, an online video service that would compete with Google's YouTube.
Like YouTube, Soapbox lets people upload video in almost any digital format. Users can then tag and categorize videos, so others can more easily find them. One difference is that Soapbox users can watch and browse from the same screen. But the site apparently supports only Internet Explorer, and doesn't work with Firefox. Read on by clicking on the above shown link.

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Esthero
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#65993 Posted on: 02/17/2007 03:49 PM

2 things come up when I think about youtube:

1 they were the first so any new service doesn't have that advantage
2 the content on youtube was to a large extent uncensored, one of the reasons why googlevideo lost from youtube

So then I wander how they expect to repeat the success of youtube without those key ingredients, which made youtube to the success it is today

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Esthero
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#65994 Posted on: 02/17/2007 04:07 PM

In other words, I don't expect much from this Soapbox

Maybe video websites are already something old

A combination of videoposts and >live< video could be the next big thing

That in combination with a podcast* possibility could be a killer combination

*I hate the word podcast