Can Soapbox bump YouTube off the Pedestal?

[vitaorsa]

Microsoft have decided to compete with YouTube in the video streaming market.. Will it be better or worse?

- http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/now-microsoft-does-videosharing/2006/09/19/1158431701871.html

- http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060911-7713.html

 

[Fedlerner]

I haven't tested it yet. Google also has a one at http://video.google.com/
If you've a link to the Microsoft one, please post it

 

[jaint]

microsoft one isn't released i think. YouTube has a steady platform, it will be hard to compete since they already have a foothold and millions of loyal users. They can slap people around with their new tos and privacy policies, and people will still come back for more. Let's not forget that YouTube gained its popularity because of piracy, people uploaded movies and tv shows and youtube got a lot of traffic because of this, but then once it became more mainstream - they shortened the file size allowed, and people started uploading useless and inane content - and somehow ppl still love it and keep going back.

 

[Chris Z]

wow....by shear guess, i found the link xD here it is....http://soapbox.msn.com but it looks like it's invitation only

apparently it's part of the "Live" evolution

 

[vitaorsa]

Yeah the microsoft Soapbox is currently 'invite only' as it is still in Beta stages..

Should be interesting... If microsoft link it to their MSN and MSN Blog Spaces, i think it will gain the upper hand.. Googles has been out a little while but hasn't seemed to kick off (lack of marketing?)..

The race begins..

 

[Cubeform]

YouTube has no business model whatsoever. I'm surprised that it's still here.

 

[t2t2t]

I got soapbox invitation, and i gotta say... ITS C**P!

Youtube FTW!

 

[remie]

i think youtube is the best because on google you get a ****load of reclam only bad thing of youtube is that you aint got a large screen :S

 

[bigguy]

I am pretty sure that Google has bought out youtube.

http://db.tidbits.com/article/8709

 

[t2t2t]

i think everyone knows it...

 

[bigguy]

well, for those that don't there it is, and obviously there isn't going to be a youtube around to compete with so it looks like it is down to MS and google.

 

[Starshine]

well, for those that don't there it is, and obviously there isn't going to be a youtube around to compete with so it looks like it is down to MS and google.

Huh? Why won't youtube be around to compete? Google bought youtube to be like Microsoft and a lot of other businesses. Scoop up the competition to get an upper hand.

From what I've read, Youtube isn't being shut down or changed any ... just under new ownership.

 

[bigguy]

Yeah, so it's not going to be the owners of youtube competing if Google owns it right. It will be google.

 

[Brandon]

This aint even methioned i thinlk but MySpace Videos will take off the top like it did back a few years ago

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.home

Only because now us kids can go to one place to get all of our content