MSN Soapbox — Microsoft’s YouTube — effort went public beta two weeks ago and our impression was nice effort but too late. The interface works well and the videos integrate — albeit not smoothly — with the Spaces and Live properties. Late to the game, they are not likely to gain a critical [...]

eMarketer just published an article projecting that MySpace will take the lions share 61% or $525 million dollars of estimating $865 million in 2007 total ad spending; second tier sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Piczo, Friendster, etc will share $200 mil; third tier portal sites such as MSN Spaces, Yahoo! 360, AIM Pages, Orkut, etc [...]