Viacom Dumps DoubleClick for Microsoft
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Microsoft and Viacom team up on ads and content, and Google quickly points to the deal as evidence that the online ad market is plenty competitive.
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Plus: Is Microsoft search engine crawling Google? [News.com Extra]
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Not open, not valuable, not really a subscription. Microsoft fails at marketing itself as hip.
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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Blog: Commission plans to expand its probe beyond Google-DoubleClick to also review Microsoft and Yahoo bids, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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Microsoft's MSN Soapbox video-sharing site is unlikely to knock Google's (GOOG) YouTube off its pedestal anytime soon. Soapbox, which officially launched for public testing this month, has several interesting features and big brand backing.
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Microsoft flexes its parody muscles with another in-house lampoon. In Gear Factor.
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Blog: The software maker has a testy back and forth with a software maker that has created a utility that interacts with the free version of Visual Studio.
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Can homegrown software help Google and YouTube defuse a $1 billion lawsuit from Viacom? That&#39;s the question underlying the announcement that Google is about to test a new system to ferret out unauthorized film and video clips on YouTube.
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Viacom Inc said on Wednesday it has  selected Microsoft Corp. as its Internet advertising partner in  a five-year agreement initially valued at an estimated $500  million that involves online games, shows and movies.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 7--When you wander around the Web, advertising companies like DoubleClick know a lot about you: For instance, they can tell that you surfed from a Hawaiian tourism site to an airline booking site to a swimsuit retailer.
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Microsoft unveils a public beta of its MSN Soapbox video-upload service, its competitor to Google's popular video service.
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From video blogs to lonelygirl15, broadband has ushered in an era of viral video that has surprised an industry. User-created clips on YouTube and Google Video reach millions of screens each day and now Microsoft wants a piece of the action with "Soapbox." Photos: View images of Soapbox on MSN Video
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Stocks to watch on Friday: DOUBLECLICK INC. :
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For a product that can count a double-digit market share only through the generous rounding of numbers, the release of Version 1.0 of the Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox Web browser was
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Since we launched at Web2  last week there has been a log of great feedback about Rojo .    First off is this *great* new Austin Power logo from Constantin Basturea   Smashing Baby!  On the subject of eye candy check out the CafePress store  that Chris  put together.  Very hip indeed!  I might get this for my girlfriend:  ... and this for my backpack:  We've been getting a lot of great feedback.  Thanks to everyone  for helping us out during our beta trial!  We even have our first Rojo external plugin :  "My room mate, Dylan Parker, has just released a plugin for FireFox named JustBlogIt. JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that allows easy right-click posting to a weblog. It a ...
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft is releasing its Silverlight 1.0 plug-in for video on the Web Wednesday and also will participate in Novell's porting of Silverlight to Linux via the Moonlight project. Silverlight represents Microsoft's efforts to present multimedia experiences on the Web, offering enhanced audio and video streaming and playback using Windows Media Technologies. The technology aims squarely at rival Adobe Systems and its ubiquitous Flash Player for multimedia on the Web. "We're finally shipping the plug-in," said Parimal Desphande, group product manager for the User Experience Platform and Tools team at Microsoft The 1.0 version of Silverlight, which is being released to the Web, is geared to providing video. Accessible at the Silverlight Web page, it has been available in a beta release. A more potent successor, Silverlight 1.1, will provide for more interactive content, including support for .Net development and transactional capabilities. It remains only available in an early alpha release format. While Silverlight currently works with Windows and Macintosh, Microsoft is endorsing Novell's plan to make Silverlight run on Linux clients via the Moonlight project. Moonlight 1.0 is expected to be done within six months, said Miguel de Icaza, vice president for the developer platform at Novell, who has been overseeing Moonlight. "We will be distributing Moonlight for all the major distributions and provide both packages in RPM and DEB [distribution] forms as well as having a Mozilla-based installer for those not familiar with the packaging system in Linux," de Icaza said. Microsoft cites several differentiators between Silverlight and Flash. Silverlight, Deshpande said, offers high-definition video at a lower cost and functions with Microsoft's developer tools. The company also is offering a SaaS-based component, Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. "[For] customers who want to use our service for streaming video content, we have that as well," Deshpande said. He touted a list of supporters of Silverlight, including Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment; Entertainment Tonight; Break.com, which shows videos; and the Home Shopping Network.Â  The ability to use Microsoft tools with Silverlight provides an advantage, said Ross Angert, creative director for interactive media at World Wrestling Entertainment. "It's the advantages from a development side that Silverlight offers us," in terms of streaming video costs and displaying multiple video streams, he said. "Flash certainly is a great tool, and we have some Flash product on our site, but I think overall as a company to partner with, Microsoft is going to be a great partner going forward," Angert said. WWE plans to use Silverlight for wrestling videos and broadband content. Current systems will be kept in place without much change, Angert said. "[Silverlight] will give users access to our entire library of videos," said Angert. Developers can use Microsoft's Visual Studio and Expression tools to develop applications for Silverlight. The company is releasing Expression Encoder 1.0, formerly Expression Media Encoder, a tool for encoding and publishing rich media content to Silverlight, on Wednesday. Microsoft also is announcing its Silverlight Partner Initiative on Wednesday, in which more than 35 companies have agreed to support Silverlight. Among the participants are Akamai Technologies, IdentityMine, Electric Rain, and TwoFour Digital.SEE ALSO:Users take sides in Flash-Silverlight clash