TECH CRUNCH -- July 21 -- Microsoft’s YouTube clone Soapbox is officially shutting its doors. Soapbox, which was launched in 2006 as a hub for downloading and sharing user-generated videos, was never able to be a viable competitor to YouTube. In June MSN Video posted its best month ever with 250M streams. But this is nothing compared to YouTube’s streams which top around 1.2 billion per day. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH