paidcontent.org — Perhaps the biggest indication of any mobile results is in the content deals announced by both companies just before the merger, which is mostly with music labels and is for music videos. There?s talk of free music videos supported by Google?s advertising nouse. Music videos, as well as the user-generated content, is perfect for mobile devices.
Oct 10, 2006 View in Crawl 4
whitey04Oct 10, 2006
OMG. Google. Youtube. WE MUST POST THIS TO DIGG 87 TIMES!!!!Quick. Somebody else might post it. Don't worry. Post it again. Talk about it all day. Fill the front page! Like A1, its THAT important.
noblerocketOct 10, 2006
How about Goob or Gooble?
Closed AccountOct 10, 2006
Wow, isn't this amazing that Google did all those deals with music companies to put music videos online?I mean, music videos are a GOLD MINE OF WEALTH for anyone involved. I remember when MTV was worth 125 billions of dollars because they had a MONOPOLY on music videos and got to sell advertising around those videos!Oh wait, they were never worth 125 billion, and in fact MTV doesnt even show music videos anymore because nobody gave a s**t about watching music videos.Youtube's videos are never longer than 5 minutes or so, because otherwise people would post full television episodes and movies. The only media that fits into 5 minutes is a music video. Therefore music videos will be youtube's main focus. Yet MTV proved that you arent going to make much money selling ads around music videos.So why are people spooging their pants again? The really amazing part is that during the original dot.com mania, none of the people involved knew how incredibly stupid they were behaving. theglobe.com going to 780 dollars a share, without a penny in profit? webvan? kozmo.com ?Yet everyone looks back and says "yeah, i guess we were pretty retarded back then."And NOW, all those same people are behaving exactly as stupid about Web 2.0 - which is nothing but all the previous Web 1.0 ideas, with more bandwidth, and Google ads plastered on every available inch on the page.In a couple years these same morons will look back at the youtube purchase and say "yeah, i guess we were pretty retarded back then."
Closed AccountOct 10, 2006
Shut up, you stupid fool.
Closed AccountOct 10, 2006
I write software to deliver visual content to mobiles. And as such I think it's a great idea to get Youtube/Googtube/Boobtube or whatever on mobiles. But to deliver anywhere near a good service you need to adapt the content (in real time) to the specific device you're delivering to - even Google wouldn't stump up enough storage for every single video on Youtube and Google Video in every device format (considering there's now between 1000 and 2000 differently spec'd mobiles on the market) ... or even a few specific screen sizes. Then again...it's Google, so maybe they would.However, the real killer is data charges. Rich media downloads will not take off until all you can eat data plans exist on mobile, which they don't yet (at least not here in the UK). But yes, this idea has a definite future, and I'm sure Google are close to solving these problems already.Alex<a class="user" href="http://www.phonething.com">http://www.phonething.com</a>
dustybOct 10, 2006
www.googtube.com "THIS DOMAIN NAME HAS JUST BEEN REGISTERED FOR ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS!" Wonder if someone is getting ahead of the game?
Closed AccountOct 16, 2006
You didnt come up with s**t.There has been the googtube blog for about a year showing the best from google video and youtube<a class="user" href="http://googtube.blogspot.com">http://googtube.blogspot.com</a>