MSN Soapbox is in public beta now
February 18th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 72 times, 1 so far today
MSN Soapbox is in public beta now
Software giant Microsoft has launched the public beta of their MSN Soapbox service which aims to take on Google owned YouTube.com service.
The service allows web users to upload videos in several formats. These videos are then converted into browser friendly formats and are made available for viewing online.
Users are free to add tags and categories the videos for easy filtering. One innovative feature present in MSN Soapbox that is missing from YouTube is that the user can surf around the website and add videos while watching already available videos.
However, at this moment the site has a limited browser support. Only internet explorer web browser is supported fully. It supports Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox (and browsers using same rendering engine) and Safari. YouTube.com in comparison supports practically all browsers which can run the Flash plugin.
Experts are confused on why the company is developing this service under the MSN brand while they are moving existing MSN services to their Live brand.
Checkout: MSN Soapbox
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February 18th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Soapbox works fine in Firefox and Safari. The IE only fact to this story is incorrect.