On line video is just another "up-load" that Internet users can do...along with text, graphics, photos, IP telephony, blogs, video blogs, and "pod casts," etc. etc.
But, does video uploading have legs longer term...? Or, will it become one more over-hyped Internet Fad like web cams, blogs and alas, the recent dot com e-commerce disaster?
Consider:
The massive amount of third rate content already on the Web has surely got many people wondering about the quality of content....not quantity of content.
In any new area of technology there is a period where: IF YOU CAN DO IT...YOU DO DO IT.
No consideration is given to whether or not...ANYONE ACTUALLY WHAT'S WHAT YOUR DOING...
The best example is the early automobile industry...
In the early days of the auto industry there were literally hundreds of car makers...each with some exotic notion or idea that might make them different...
GM bought up hundreds of these companies to get their ideas and notions, but most of them never panned out... And, with the ones that were viable, often there was a lacked of need by the public.
That is really were the Internet is today...
IF IT CAN BE DONE. IT WILL BE DONE....WHETHER OR NOT ANYONE REALLY WANTS, OR NEEDS IT...
Google, like GM before it, is acting as a consolidator of innovations, a random buyer of new ideas or weird notions...some of which will fail, but some of which could become the "next big thing."
Still, my hunch is that the next big thing will be the convergence of television and the Internet in a very big and compelling way.
In the future everyone will be able to have their own "talk show," and it will be available globally...to anyone who is interested in watching...alas, probably only their families.
In the future, everyone will be connected to everything...and everything will be available 24.7.
MAYBE THE NEXT BIG THING SHOULD BE AN AGGREGATOR OF INTERNET QUALITY...NOT QUANTITY?
GOOGLE CAN SERVE UP ONE MILLION PAGES ON A TOPIC...BUT PITY THE POOR SURFER WHO IS CONFRONTED WITH THAT AMOUNT OF DATA...WHERE TO START?
It's sort of like cable TV... Back when there were only four networks...there was always something to watch.
Now that you have access to four hundred channels... Often there is NOTHING ON!
PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO TURN OFF THE INTERNET. AND JUST READ A BOOK...?
Maybe we need a New York Times Book Review for Internet Content...? Now that could be a very big thing...!
