The Belgian MSN team is about to launch msnvideo.be. It’s actually a local version of the Soapbox website that’s been online for a while now, and of which I’m hoping they’ll switch to Silverlight really soon. That would be sooo awesome. But let’s not get off the track. The MSN Video site will publish ‘purchased content’ like clips from National Geographic, Gossip and Hollywood crap and more pleasant things as (live) concerts and music clips. Obivously some news content will be made available as well. As much as I like the initiative, I think it’s a bit of a downer that they didn’t include the ‘embed’ link for the videos and only the ‘email this’, ‘blog it on spaces’ and ‘link to video’. There are so many more options available on Soapbox to promote a clip, which contributes to the portability and accessibility of the data. I hope they’ll add this too locally and I’m pretty sure that having a lot of the Soapbox content localized is a good thing to promote our platform. For the launch, a commercial has been released with the (translated) catch phrase: “You’ll prefer picking what you see yourself”.
