SoapBox

The Mobile and Embedded Devices Conference (MEDC) is taking place in Vegas next week, and I thought I'd post a little fun here to get things going. Mel Sampat stopped by to demo some fancy-schmancy stuff in Windows Mobile 6.0. There's more going on now for both devs and users. One of the…

By now, you've heard of MSN's Soapbox video site where you can upload your own videos and share your creativity and message with the world, for free, etc... Well, that sounds happy and nice, but we want to know how Soapbox actually works, how it's architected/designed for scale, and why they made…

The shorter guy with the dark hair who has been accused of being a Zune fanboy returned this week- and while he was out exploring the world he picked up a few juicy Microsoft stories to bring back and share with us. Voila: You don't want to be sued by Microsoft Microsoft gets in the Reality…

Soapbox is now no longer a stand-alone site, but has been fully integrated into MSN Video beta. The integration is part of a refresh of the MSN Video site that brings several new features including a Video Showcase of videos of interest & the most watched videos, quicker processing…

Windows Live Photo Gallery beta, one of Microsoft's new Windows Live Services, improves upon the built-in Photo Gallery in Windows Vista. The software, available for both Vista and XP users, offers many new features like better tagging, sorting, and image editing, including the…

Thanks to a new feature in Soapbox, the section of user-generated videos found here on MSN Video, you can now automatically download and sync videos to your PC and to your Zune. With this new option, you can subscribe to Soapbox videos by category, user video list, or via a search. That last option…

There’s a new MSN Video sidebar gadget now available for download from the Windows Live Gallery. This gadget displays video from the both the MSN Video and Soapbox catalogs across 30+ countries and languages. After installing it, I was surprised by the number of options available. For example,…

There is more than one way to share a video online. We sat down with Rob Bennett from the MSN Soapbox Team where he answered our questions and gave us a demo of the web site and device experience. You are most likely saying, "We’ve heard of all the online video sharing sites before, what…

Part 2 of my Halstead York interview is now up, wherein we discuss VC-1, Silverlight, frame rate unsampling, and many other things. Part 3 talking about DRM (save the most contentious for last!) will be up soon.