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November 29, 2005
Video Sharing, Vlogging, etc.
A slew of new video sharing services have hit the net -- YouTube, ClipShack, Vimeo, OurMedia, Vimmer, VideoEgg... This is the second wave of such companies; the first (of which I was a part of) happened in 1999-2000 with companies like Videoshare, Eveo, Earthnoise, Spotlife. Many of these new companies presented at Chris Shipley's prestigious Demo conference in 2005 much like Earthnoise presented in Demo 2000. I wonder if Chris is laughing to herself seeing a repeat of the failures of 2000 in this space. Unlike 2000, the bandwidth is now in tens of millions of homes. Unlike 2000, blogging tools create an easy publishing framework for video to sit upon. Unlike 2000, podcast receivers make it easy to subscribe and receive video enclosures. Despite all this,
there is still no business model to these sites. Consumers still expect to stream video for free. They'll play with these sites and bore after a few weeks. Video is still difficult and too time-consuming for your average joe to create. Perhaps the only one who will make money off this second wave are the bandwidth providers...or infrastructure software providers such as Brightcove and Google that make money whether these sites succeed or fail.
Posted by raza at November 29, 2005 4:02 PM
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