Crossfader

Robert Scoble is up to his old tricks again, getting the ground roots buzz out about a new product that Microsoft will apparently launch in Miami at the Winter Music Conference, called Crossfader.

No other hints on what it might be. People are already noticing that the homepage graphic is "ripped off" from a hardware panel made by Rane. Doing a bit of speculation, I'm assuming it's a software product and not hardware, and that the copying of the Rane panel was just a poor decision on whomever posted the site.

I'm speculating that it's going to be a podcasting product, rather than a specifically music-oriented product, just because I can't see Microsoft getting into this area just yet, but podcasting is something that they want to have a piece of, hopefully to remove the "pod" from "podcasting". Is that what it's going to be? I have no real clue, and Scoble ain't talking yet, other than to say that Channel 9 did the same thing before it was released.

Let's just hope that whatever it ends up being can live up to the hype that is likely to be generated.

Update: Apparently Crossfader is indeed going to be launched at that show, and is simply an online community for musicians. A bit of a let down, but I wasn't the target audience for this particular "product".