Hosting videos using Windows Azure and Silverlight: step by step (we need this!)

As you may have noticed, we’ve been working hard on getting LiveSide.net ready for the year to come, including moving to a new web host, working on the themes, adding Disqus comments, and hopefully ... Read more »

Soapbox video recovery: not so bad

Lately all of our favorite services seem to be crapping out on us.  We told you about the upcoming demise of MSN Soapbox, where we have a number of videos hosted.  Users have until ... Read more »

Oh snap. MSN to discontinue Soapbox (we’re screwed)

Here’s one from the “saw this coming from a mile away” department.  After “scaling back” the user uploaded video service last month, today an email confirmed that the other shoe has dropped, and that ... Read more »

Soapbox To Become A Forum For Bloggers And Citizen Journalists?

In the coming months, Microsoft plans to significantly scale back Soapbox, the user generated video site hosted on MSN Video. In an interview on Tuesday, Microsoft Vice President Erik Jorgensen said Soapbox is one ... Read more »

More on Wave 3: Windows Live Writer to support YouTube, Events and Photo Albums

Having told you about what’s coming in Messenger, Mail, Movie Maker and Photo Gallery, it’s now time to cover the next one in the series: Windows Live Writer. Let us start off with a screenshot for you: ... Read more »

MSN Soapbox now part of MSN Video (beta)

A number of changes to MSN Soapbox just occured, most notably that Soapbox is no longer a stand-alone site, but has become a tab at http://next.video.msn.com. The old url for Soapbox, Soapbox.msn.com, now resolves ... Read more »

MSN Soapbox reopens to public with copyright content filtering

Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues ... Read more »

New Soapbox and MSN Video launched

As we posted earlier, a new relaunched MSN Soapbox has been announced, and is available for trial for those who are in the Soapbox beta.  In addition, a new version of MSN Videos, at ... Read more »

Soapbox Update

A post on the Soapbox Team Blog has alerted users that a change is coming as the Soapbox site goes down for a couple of hours whilst they make some changes to both the front ... Read more »

MSN Soapbox closed to new users amid piracy concerns

ZDNet News is reporting that MSN Soapbox is being closed to new users for up to 2 months as Microsoft sorts out piracy issues.  ZDNet quotes Adam Sohn, a director in Microsoft’s online-services group, ... Read more »