Word around the blogfire is that both News Corp. and Microsoft are working on their own versions of YouTube, one trying derail outbound traffic, the other doing its usual killer app copycatting.
Besides crediting a model that obviously has been successful, Chemin estimated that of the 100 million videos streamed daily from YouTube, 60-70 percent of them were accessed by MySpace members.
In fact, according to Chemin, these killer Web 2.0 apps would be nothing without MySpace.
“If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flicker, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace,” he said.
Meanwhile in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft believes its time to enter the ring. What was codenamed “Warhol,” the internal beta video upload service will launch under the brand Soapbox on MSN Video – you know, because Warhol was too short.
According to LiveSide, the YouTuby me-too application will feature:
Video uploading in any format, which includes videos from digital video cameras, with a limit of 100 Mb per video.
Tagging
Simultaneous watching and browsing videos
RSS feeds
Integration with Windows Live Spaces
Embedding for websites and blogs
LiveSide, where you can find a screenshot, says that the service should go into public beta in the next few weeks.
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