Soapbox, Microsoft's Youtube Alike

Yet, it is to be live (currently as an individual visitor, you possibly will be prompted Connection to this site has been restricted to corpnet only when clicking the hyperlink) in some time. Anyway, just like those Youtube and Google Video among others, the upcoming MSN Soapbox is also a user generated video portal. Comments to Microsoft's decision to launch it as a MSN not Live product , Michael Arrington of Techcruch sez:

I agree with Nathan Weinberg - it’s extemely odd that Microsoft is launching this under the MSN brand instead of live.com. All of their recent web services have been released under Live.com, including their recent video search product. And MSN Spaces was recently rebranded as Live Spaces. The best way to ensure that this service gets immediate traction would be to link it directly to Live.com, as Myspace has done with its own video product.

via Gseeker

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