Next month it’ll be two years since Marc Canter and I started Ourmedia.org with what then was an outlandish idea: giving free hosting and bandwidth to regular people — a place where they could store and show off their videos and other media for free. Now, with 270-plus video hosting sites out there and the YouTube boys $1.65 billion richer, the idea seems like a no-brainer, but it was a bit of a shot in the dark at the time. We still have a lot of wrinkles to iron out, since we don’t have Google’s bank account behind us, but we’re making progress again, especially with our Learning Center and Open Media Directory.
Andy Carvin, who heads up NPR’s new media strategy, cornered me at Web 2.0 two days ago and just posted this video interview with me about Ourmedia, past, present and future.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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