What are the top main 3 competitors to youtube (besides vimeo).
Shouldn't someone be able to come up with a half decent competitor at this point in the game? Seems like Google is trying really hard to kill the best media property they've got.
I think the ultimate competitor for these kinds of things will be no competitor, when people can just post things "up there" that don't appear to be tied to any obviously identifiable gatekeeper.
They already have that. You might have heard of it, it's called "the web". :)
But seriously, the FSF or somebody needs to work on the problems Youtube and Facebook solve, but urgently. When posting things on your own website and sharing it with your friends becomes as easy as updating your facebook status, much disruption will ensue.
It just doesn't seem like it should be that hard. A fancy UI on top of email and an easy homepage creator is all it would take, right? Opt-in advertising could give people a choice whether to display ads or pay for hosting.
Couldn't web hosting companies make a lot of money and compete with Facebook and Google if they innovated this way? Because, basically, that's what Facebook is selling. Hosting+fancy UI. I must be missing something because nobody seems to be doing this.
We need IPv6 first I feel; then we need the idea of a personal IP address that can act as a personal gateway to your computer. Then there needs to be a social platform which merely acts as a caching proxy for connection to you.
At that point we can do FB but have it decentralised, you won't need a sharing service you'll just need to give people your IP - this I felt was the idea behind Opera's Unite "server in a browser".
"Boy I'd sure love to see the pictures from Dan's wedding, but his desktop got a virus so he's offline."
You could use a little Pogoplug-style appliance, but you're still placing usability at the mercy of Comcast, clueless users, and curious cable-pulling children.
The benefit to youtube-type model is that there is an aggregator. There's a "channel" where people can bounce between interests.
You can make the argument that you can utilize "the internet" as a channel - but I think it's been demonstrated that people prefer to have a slice that they know is going to be specifically video-based content.
Shouldn't someone be able to come up with a half decent competitor at this point in the game? Seems like Google is trying really hard to kill the best media property they've got.