Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:18 PM
arstechnica.com is reporting that Soapbox is set to die August 31st. Soapbox was the Microsoft YouTube competitor, which never really garnered the same sort of following that YouTube did. I was a big SoapBox fan. It was nice to not need yet another username/password and associate instead to my Live account.
If you have videos uploaded, Microsoft will allow you to download them up to the August 31st deadline.
I have a *tonne* of videos that I’ll have to download and replace on my blog…hoping that maybe we’ll be able to host Silverlight apps in GWB at some point and stream the videos down from Microsoft’s Silverlight media service instead of using YouTube. (hint hint John and Jeff :) )
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