Canada's YouTube!
South of the border, they get YouTube; up here in the great, white north, we get….blogTV.ca, a video sharing service from Alliance Atlantis that's just for us Canucks. Check out Mathew Ingram's take on YouTube North, which apparently claims it owns all content uploaded to the Web site. Hah! Here's a riddle: why is it that Canada ranks second behind South Korea when it comes to high-speed Internet penetration yet we lag when it comes to e-commerce, social networking, user-generated content, etc. Why?
For more thoughts, check out Global Nerdy, who believe blogTV is neither a blog or TV.
December 6th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Wow, you're obsessed with YouTube. What is like 5 posts all having something to do with YouTube?
Also, what stats do you have on Canadian UGC, e-commerce, etc? Just your perception (I agree btw, just wondering if you had any hard data)?
P.S. You've got to fix this blog post form. It's so complicated…if you made it simpler, I'd bet you'd get more people commenting.
December 6th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
perhaps because we know it's silly to build a country-specific social software service/site. Youtube works just fine for all countries. Why fragment it and reinvent the wheel? There are lots of social software folks here in Canada, it's just that they all “live” in the global spaces. Flickr - developed in Vancouver, before selling to Yahoo. etc…
December 7th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
There's even better (or worst) : TonTuyau.com is the Quebec (French canadian) Version