also @ TechSpot: Toshiba abandons netbook market in US, focuses on Ultrabooks instead

TechSpot
Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync.
Microsoft Office 365. Pay-as-you-go starting at $8/user/month. Begin your free trial now.

Microsoft to close Soapbox August 31

Discussion in 'TechSpot News and Comments' started by Matthew, Jul 22, 2009.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

  1. Matthew TechSpot Editor, Community Manager

    Only a month off from their decision to scale back Soapbox, Microsoft has decided to close the service altogether. Soapbox launched as a YouTube competitor in 2006, but failed to gain foothold on the market. Redmond’s announcement last month stated that they intended on transforming Soapbox into a forum where bloggers and citizen journalists could post videos relevant to MSN’s focal points (entertainment, lifestyle, finance etc).

    Read the whole story
    Matthew, Jul 22, 2009
    #1

  2. raybay TechSpot Addict

    Is this a bad thing?
    raybay, Jul 22, 2009
    #2

  3. Rick TechSpot Staff

    I've never heard even heard of it...
    Rick, Jul 22, 2009
    #3

  4. SNGX1275 TechSpot Special Forces

    Me neither Rick, saw the headline and had to click to see what it was all about.
    SNGX1275, Jul 22, 2009
    #4

  5. Rick TechSpot Staff

    If reasonably tech savvy digirati like ourselves did't know what SoapBox was, maybe that was part of it is failure.

    I'm sure MSN pushed it as part of their services, but relatively speaking, not many people use MSN.

    And concerning Microsoft, it's probably for the best anyway, since YouTube loses about $1,500,000 every day it operates. If YT can't generate money, I doubt Soapbox could even be in the positives, let alone lucrative.
    Rick, Jul 22, 2009
    #5

  6. JudaZ Newcomer, in training

    whats soapbox, agree with Rick, I've never heard of it....maybe thats the problem.
    JudaZ, Jul 24, 2009
    #6
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.