Article by Ellen Lee in today’s San Francisco Chronicle: While YouTube dominates Web of today, about 240 sites have dreams of success — or getting gobbled up for big bucks. Excerpt: Seeing so many companies offering online video hosting, Pleasanton’s Ourmedia, one of the market’s earliest players, recently decided to change course. Although it continues […]
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Is YouTube a flash in the pan?
Here’s the latest on YouTube — and a worthy competitor called Metacafe. CNET News.com: Is YouTube a flash in the pan? As video-sharing site YouTube rides an enormous wave of popularity, a research firm has expressed doubts about the company’s business prospects. Josh Martin, an IDC research analyst, issued a report Thursday asserting that YouTube […]
Flavors of grassroots video
What kinds of videos are people watching online? It’s sure not Lost or Desperate Housewives, even if downloads of traditional TV shows command most of the media’s attention, thanks to Apple’s bottom line. At Supernova on Friday, Mary Hodder, CEO of Dabble, said she’d list the different varieties or genres of grassroots video her company […]
Google Video to allow comments & ratings
Today from Kevin Nalty at Will Video for Food: Google Video to Allow Comments & Ratings (and what we REALLY want). Google Video will soon allow online video viewers to post comments and ratings. This places the site closer to YouTube’s model, and could well help it steal market share from the #1 online video […]
Interviews: 88Slide & AskaNinja
Here are two interviews I conducted at Vloggercon last weekend and just posted to my RealPeopleNetwork blog: Rachel and Noah from 88Slide and Ken Nichols from AskaNinja.com. A glimpse at some fun and burgeoning grassroots creativity.