Microsoft has launched a new online service which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger. The new service called Messenger TV will offer a range of clips on MSN Video including MTV shows and music clips from providers such as Sony BMG.
Microsoft hopes the ability to watch clips with friends on different computers will create a new social experience and attract users who already spend hours on social networks. In practice, the system works a lot like the recently sandboxed feature of YouTube which allows a similar real-time chatting during viewing: it’s like sitting on a digital couch and chatting with your friends as you watch TV.
The service will launch in 20 countries including many European countries, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico but not the United States.
via Ogilvy Verge CastMicrosoft has launched a new online service which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger. The new service called Messenger TV will offer a range of clips on MSN Video including MTV shows and music clips from providers such as Sony BMG.
Microsoft hopes the ability to watch clips with friends on different computers will create a new social experience and attract users who already spend hours on social networks. In practice, the system works a lot like the recently sandboxed feature of YouTube which allows a similar real-time chatting during viewing: it’s like sitting on a digital couch and chatting with your friends as you watch TV.
The service will launch in 20 countries including many European countries, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico but not the United States.
Via Ogilvy Verge CastMicrosoft has launched a new online service which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger. The new service called Messenger TV will offer a range of clips on MSN Video including MTV shows and music clips from providers such as Sony BMG.
Microsoft hopes the ability to watch clips with friends on different computers will create a new social experience and attract users who already spend hours on social networks. In practice, the system works a lot like the recently sandboxed feature of YouTube which allows a similar real-time chatting during viewing: it’s like sitting on a digital couch and chatting with your friends as you watch TV.
The service will launch in 20 countries including many European countries, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico but not the United States.
Via OgilvyVergeCast
“it’s like sitting on a digital couch and chatting with your friends as you watch TV.”
Acum daca fac o paralela, si-mi imaginez o familie cu doi copii… toti patru pe aceeasi canapea, uitandu-se la aceeasi emisiune pe televizor, nu stiu cat de calitativa e experienta lor sociala! Dar probabil tine de gustul fiecaruia, eu, unul, nu-s mare fun de socializari in fata televizorului.