{"id":1571,"date":"2009-07-22T07:11:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T06:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/microsoft-shuts-down-msn-soapbox\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T07:45:15","slug":"microsoft-shuts-down-msn-soapbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/microsoft-shuts-down-msn-soapbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shuts down MSN Soapbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of the 31st of\u00a0August 2009, it&#8217;s the end of the road for Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Soapbox, Microsoft\u00a0attempt of creating a YouTube.\u00a0 From the 29th of July\u00a02009 you will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox and have till the 31st of\u00a0August 2009 to download them. Guess I better start downloading my videos next week then and host them on YouTube! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attention Soapbox Users,<br \/>\nMSN will no longer offer Soapbox, the user generated video service within MSN Video, as of August 31, 2009. Beginning on July 29, you will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox. People who have uploaded videos to Soapbox will have until August 31, 2009 to download them. Please make sure you download your videos by this date if you would like to keep them. We will have a notice running in the Soapbox service to remind you to download your videos. It is our goal that you download and keep all of the videos you uploaded that are important to you. Online video is a key part of the MSN experience and we will continue to offer a rich experience on MSN Video. We will also continue to invest in delivering great customer experiences, while keeping a keen eye on our business objectives during this tough economic climate. Thank you for your support of MSN Video. More details and download instructions are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.msn.com\/shutdown.html\">http:\/\/video.msn.com\/shutdown.html<\/a><br \/>\nThank you for using Soapbox.<br \/>\nThe MSN Video Team<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of the 31st of\u00a0August 2009, it&#8217;s the end of the road for Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Soapbox, Microsoft\u00a0attempt of creating a YouTube.\u00a0 From the 29th of July\u00a02009 you will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox and have till the 31st of\u00a0August 2009 to download them. Guess I better start downloading my videos next week then and host them<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/microsoft-shuts-down-msn-soapbox\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft shuts down MSN Soapbox&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}