Microsoft’s YouTube clone: MSN Soapbox

Microsoft’s YouTube clone: MSN Soapbox

Back in July, we mentioned that Microsoft was working on a YouTube clone.

Tomorrow it will be unveiled, according to Microsoft employee Kurt Shintaku, who doesn’t seem to know whether to call it by its internal codename “Warhol,” or its more boring official name “MSN Soapbox.”

I’ve been working with Warhol for the past couple of months and I really like it. It’s a glitzier version of Putfile that only uses Windows Media, which has been my… Continue Reading

What happened to Rojo’s mojo?

What happened to Rojo’s mojo?

Blogging software company Six Apart announced today it has bought the RSS feed reader company, Rojo.

Rojo was just one of start-ups gunning for position in the crowded field of giving users with a way to collect and read RSS feeds, or subscriptions to news and other sources that come to you automatically. These RSS readers are popular because they save you time — you don’t have to go out and access the sites or publications… Continue Reading