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Soapbox: Video interview and invites

On10 has a video interview with Rob Bennett from the MSN Soapbox Team, as well as 10,000 invites to the closed beta run from ideas.live.com. So if you haven't signed up yet, this is probably the easiest way to see what the site is about.

(Note, the on10 signup link will not let you register if it detects you are not from the USA. Way to go guys.)

While the basic functionality of Soapbox is good, don't expect it to be worth $1.65B anytime soon ;)

Published Oct 16 2006, 08:36 PM by Chris
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BV2312 said:

well how about changing ur locality to USA using accounts.live.com then trying the link ;)

October 16, 2006 9:21 PM
 

Khristopher said:

worth 1.65 billion lol that made me laugh :P

October 16, 2006 10:46 PM
 

Meikle said:

I get intermittent video playback when using IE7.

There's a link in the help section that says has a fix for it but the link doesn't work.

Does anyone know what the fix is?

October 16, 2006 11:05 PM
 

emaceru said:

Hi, I can access to the invite, it said that it´s not available in my country or region, I´m from the US.

October 16, 2006 11:07 PM
 

AdamKinney said:

"(Note, the on10 signup link will not let you register if it detects you are not from the USA. Way to go guys.)"

There is no locale detection code, rather you probably tried to register with a reserved username which we are not handling so well in some cases.

October 17, 2006 1:05 AM
 

Decipher said:

I know this isn't the best option, but I managed to signup to the Beta by changing my locale to United States and using a US Proxy Server.

Worked like a charm... After that you can change your settings back to normal and you'll have no problems.

If you're after a proxy server I'm sure you can find one with a simple search.

October 17, 2006 1:50 AM
 

Chris said:

Meikle: There are several large Vista and IE7 bugs at the moment that users can't necessarily do much about. We'll just have to wait for an update.

Adam: This isn't what I (or other users) are seeing. Even when signed out of all Windows Live IDs, that link takes me to http://ideas.live.com/ErrorPage.aspx?ErrorCode=12. I just retested it and found it is still the case.

October 17, 2006 4:24 PM

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