Video, Video and more Video
Apologies for the video focus today but TechDirt has a great post questioning the proliferation of video-sharing services, which seem to be sprouting up like dandylions these days. What do you expect when the barriers to entry are so low what with low-cost servers, bandwidth and storage? Rest assured, there will be a few winners because every Web-based service sector has one or two dominant players (e.g. eBay, Google, Amazon, Yahoo) and a few mega-deals as the frenzy reaches its zenith (e.g. YouTube will get likely get acquired by Rupert Murdoch or another major media player looking for a Web “foothold”). But there will also be plenty of carnage with many video services disappear without a whimper. Then again, the silver lining about Web 2.0 is it is a giant science experiment that encourages entrepreneurship and some risk-taking given the cost of failure is so low. And that's not a bad thing.
