Windows Live video search is in the wild, and what you can learn from it
Lots of blog posts today on the new beta of video search for Windows Live (check it out here). However what’s interesting to watch is how this story unfolded in the blogosphere:
Who broke it:
O’Reilly Radar – Live’s News Video Search and UI (Beta)
Next up:
TechCrunch – Windows Live Testing Video Search
Sites linking off TechCrunch
MSTechToday – Microsoft testing video search for Windows Live
—LiveSide.net then picked up on Brandon’s post, as did Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft Watch
Other sites linking off of TechCrunch:
Dead 2.0 (or shall we say, Deadr?)
techTAGG (a Digg clone)
OptimizacionCR (Spanish)
This is a very small, but illustrative example – the Live Writer “blog storm” of two weeks is a far more interesting subject to analyze, albeit a much larger and more challenging one (working on that…). This type of exercise is a great one for anyone in marketing interested in how stories about your products spread across the blogging community, and who is most interested in spreading them (and therefore who you should be sure to read and possibly reach out to).
tags: windows+live, video, meme
