{"id":1489,"date":"2007-04-25T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2007-10-06T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T12:51:53","slug":"videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia CBC (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2007\/04\/25\/tech-msnvideobetasoapbox-20070425.html\">article<\/a>), I found out that Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/next.video.msn.com\/\">MSN Video<\/a> relaunched (uh: beta it is). It&#8217;s heavily relying on the same company&#8217;s Soapbox software (<a href=\"http:\/\/soapbox.msn.com\/\">here<\/a>). And I guess you may just as well go to the official announcement, which is over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/soapboxteam.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!278AB163A6122C91!833.entry\">Soapbox blog<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Is Microsoft too late to jump in the Video hosting boat (after Google, Yahoo and even AOL)? To be honest: I&#8217;m not so sure. At this moment it looks like Microsoft is aiming at hosting news snippets from a diverse amount of news organizations. Clips like (at this moment) the new discovered planet and Rosie, for the people who don&#8217;t watch the news on television. I guess it will work for thousands of people who come home late from and need a quick &#8216;headline&#8217; &#8216;snack&#8217;. Notably is that this site uses Flash to play movies which I find ironic at least.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small>Update: Sony to <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&#038;storyID=2007-04-26T124749Z_01_TKU002801_RTRIDST_0_TECH-SONY-VIDEOSHARING-COL.XML\">reveal YouTube-like video sharing site<\/a> in Japan.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via CBC (article), I found out that Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Video relaunched (uh: beta it is). It&#8217;s heavily relying on the same company&#8217;s Soapbox software (here). And I guess you may just as well go to the official announcement, which is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}