WEB 2.0 > MSN's YouTube clone: Can this old-timer compete?

MSN is finally taking the wraps off its highly-anticipated user-generated-video service, known for some time by its code name, Warhol.

Not only is MSN a bit late to the party, it's a bit of an old-timer entering a game at which the young are ruling the roost.

The service, officially dubbed Soapbox, is intended to compete head to head with the popular YouTube video and social network site, as well as with similar services offered by old and new media companies. These include Google (GOOG) Video, and Time Warner's (TWX) user-generated video site on AOL as well as a couple dozen other video-sharing startups, such as Revver.com, Break.com, Guba.com, Grouper, which was just snapped up by Sony for $65 million, vMix.com, Veoh Networks, and so on, and so on, and so on.