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Microsoft Hiring To Take On YouTube, Flickr

By the Betanews Staff | Published November 12, 2007, 1:42 PM

With social media becoming increasingly popular on the Web, Microsoft is looking to ensure that it does not fall behind its rivals. A job posting appeared on the company's Web site Friday -- and has since apparently disappeared -- looking for a program manager for a photo and video sharing website. The service would be part of the Live family and work across several services including Spaces, SkyDrive, Messenger, and Hotmail.

"This feature team is building a next-generation photo and video sharing service that will compete with Flickr, Smugmug and other photo web solutions today," the job posting read. "This is a 'v1' opportunity." Microsoft had attempted to compete in the space before with Soapbox, however it never seemed to take off and only received cursory attention from the Redmond company.

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DatabaseBen
Nov 13, 2007 - 4:00 PM

The ideal candidate will be a Millenium Generation Educated Moron.

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Mystiqq
Nov 13, 2007 - 10:13 AM

As geeky as this sounds but this reminds me of the good old Star Trek Borg stuff. "Assimilate, resistance is futile".

Microsoft is truly on the frontier of innovation, going where no man has gone before. xD

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horsecharles
Nov 12, 2007 - 2:12 PM

Trying to play catchup & reinvent the wheel yet again... instead of sticking to core competencies & improving current product shortcomings-- doesn't this get old ever?

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THZGryphon
Nov 12, 2007 - 2:56 PM

Old like such worthless comments.

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pitdingo
Nov 12, 2007 - 4:00 PM

This is how M$ works. They continue to release crap software that is full of bugs and security holes, and don't ever fix them. Then they force you to upgrade to the newest, "most secure version ever" and repeat the process.

And all of the M$ drones on here just lap it up and send all their money to M$.

All the "Live" stuff is total crap anyhow. Google and Yahoo are so far ahead of them.

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THZGryphon
Nov 12, 2007 - 8:41 PM

Speaking of M$ drones...

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tiburoncito_2000
Nov 13, 2007 - 1:49 AM

You most be thinking Mac. Oh, no Mac is hardware update to use the latest and greatest. Much cheaper, and they never break and everything works with them, My bad.....

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cap737
Nov 13, 2007 - 7:56 AM

How do you know? He could be a linux fan for all we know.

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