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Microsoft's Soapbox Headed For The Wastebin

It looks like Microsoft may be narrowing its focus in the field of video-sharing.  MSN Video will live on, but Soapbox is bound for the trashcan. Soapbox was often referred to as a YouTube clone with stricter views on copyright.  It was responsible for only a small percentage of Microsoft's overall video streams, and of course even that total doesn't compare favorably to the numbers posted by sites like YouTube, MySpace, and Hulu.

Users Spent 1740 Years At MySpace In March?

Google's not perfect. The company had a chance to acquire MySpace months before News Corp., at half the price. Rupert Murdoch called it arrogance that they didn't, and he was probably right. If you add the time spent on MySpace by users in March, it would equal 1740 years, according to Racepoint Group.