Getting on my soapbox
Well it's the first day of the New Year, I've broken several resolutions hours ago, so I thoughts I'd repair some of my damaged brain cells by looking at some of the new stuff we've been doing last year.
I've been having a look at MSN Soapbox which is currently in beta. You can request an invite and get to have a look at videos you want to see or upload. I've heard that it's been designed to appeal at consumers and its certainly a lot easier to navigate around than YouTube. But to be honest, it's only got a few videos stored so far. I don't think that it's entirely aimed at consumers though. I found a few technical screen videos posted up there, one from Mike about Web Screenscraping With Excel 2007 and a couple of others on technical topics.
Video: Web Screenscraping With Excel 2007
Perhaps this will grow as time goes on to cover all of the areas that YouTube does. The main difference I can see is that Soapbox stores the videos in wmv, so they're easier to play and I prefer the tags displayed after a search to give me similar categories of video. I'd love to know what the hardware setup is to host these? Does anyone have any ideas?