May 31, 2007
Web Video – State of the Union
Shel Israel for Social Computing Magazine, on the huge phenomenon of online video.
"I've been looking at online video for about a month now, spending less than an hour on most days, just poking around. There's so much going on, in so many areas, that this approach is very much like assaulting a glacier with an ice pick. Except that even a glacier on steroids would not come close to keeping up with this rapidly growing, rapidly changing category.
Over half the web's content is now digital video, my friend JD Lasica, a citizen video expert says. He says many predict the web will eventually be 98% video.
This changes things. It changes how the Internet will be used. Some of this is just a new and better distribution mechanism. For example, the day is fast coming when you'll be able to get whatever commercial TV or video program you want from your computer and wirelessly send it to your TV set for viewing whenever you want. Cable providers need not be involved. There's also the new pro-am explosion best typified on YouTube.
But there is much more happening and from time-to-time, I plan to write about the companies and people who stand out in my perception as the diamonds in the coal mine, companies and people who are changing the nature of the online experience."
[Read more on some of the companies reviewed by Shel Israel]
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