{"id":44,"date":"2006-10-18T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T16:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-02-10T12:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:21:35","slug":"microsofts-answer-to-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/microsofts-answer-to-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Answer to YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Google has acquired YouTube, Microsoft plans to counter it&#8217;s rival by launching it&#8217;s own video site called Soapbox, which is currently in it&#8217;s beta. Soapbox will allow Vloggers to upload videos in various formats, assign categories and share them with others, just like YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>As some wise-guy philosopher once said, it&#8217;s best not to make predictions, especially about the future. Microsoft is not predicting Soapbox&#8217;s success so only time will tell whether it will give YouTube a run for the money or not.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"entrylink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/soapbox.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/soapbox.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\/\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can refresh the homepage to view a different video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Google has acquired YouTube, Microsoft plans to counter it&#8217;s rival by launching it&#8217;s own video site called Soapbox, which is currently in it&#8217;s beta. Soapbox will allow Vloggers to upload videos in various formats, assign categories and share them with others, just like YouTube. As some wise-guy philosopher once said, it&#8217;s best not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}