techcrunch.com— Given the importance of video clips (both user generated and copyrighted works), News Corp. is uneasy that their biggest competitor is also their biggest source of revenue on MySpace.
Oct 16, 2006View in Crawl 4
I'm so sick of these "web 2.0" companies just thieving each other's ideas and arriving at nearly identical conclusions. What ever happened to original concepts and business models? Taking a bold risk and challenging perceptions instead of doing a me-too offering?All the network TV channels decided that reality TV had the best ratio of production cost / ratings, and now all the web 2.0 sites have figured out it's all about "social networking," "viral videos," etc. It's a garbage heap.Soon people will discover that other people aren't actually that interesting after all. Then we'll see the rise of "antisocial networking" sites I'm sure....
Uh oh, looks like things can get ugly...Oh wait, MySpace already looks like crap and is loaded with password-stealing bulletins, adware, and people who cannot understand CSS for s**t and set the transparency too high so you have to highlight the whole damn page to read their uninteresting blabber in AOL speak with more "LOL"s than punctuation marks.I can't stand MySpace as a competitor to something as pure as Google. They may be trying to monopolize the Internet, but Google hasn't done anything wrong as of yet.
Except to pay out the ass for a technically elementary site that only succeeded through Google's failure to market Google Video. People do not see Google as something users contribute to; they see it as a source of information that is culled automatically by scouring the Web. Google Video? If anyone even knows where to find it, they most likely assume it's just a search engine for video. I've never even seen the "homepage" for Google Video, or how to upload clips.Google hasn't done anything wrong? Wrong. Google Video failed for obvious reasons, and stockholders should be apoplectic over this gross expenditure on YouTube.But no. The stupidity that dominates our society more and more rears its head even amongst the august "analysts" that hold forth on Wall Street, who overlook the fact that this site has no business plan and if it ever devises one, it will never be worth the money or justify purchasing rather than developing one in house.
thenativeraverOct 16, 2006
Hooray for pre-compiled codes for the ignorant masses to polute the web with!!!
kazrogOct 16, 2006
I'm so sick of these "web 2.0" companies just thieving each other's ideas and arriving at nearly identical conclusions. What ever happened to original concepts and business models? Taking a bold risk and challenging perceptions instead of doing a me-too offering?All the network TV channels decided that reality TV had the best ratio of production cost / ratings, and now all the web 2.0 sites have figured out it's all about "social networking," "viral videos," etc. It's a garbage heap.Soon people will discover that other people aren't actually that interesting after all. Then we'll see the rise of "antisocial networking" sites I'm sure....
zeonzumdeikunOct 17, 2006
Uh oh, looks like things can get ugly...Oh wait, MySpace already looks like crap and is loaded with password-stealing bulletins, adware, and people who cannot understand CSS for s**t and set the transparency too high so you have to highlight the whole damn page to read their uninteresting blabber in AOL speak with more "LOL"s than punctuation marks.I can't stand MySpace as a competitor to something as pure as Google. They may be trying to monopolize the Internet, but Google hasn't done anything wrong as of yet.
zeonzumdeikunOct 17, 2006
...And when the two combined through bulletins and photo collections...PANDEMONIUM!!!
zeonzumdeikunOct 17, 2006
...Hooray Beer!That would make for a lame Red Stripe commercial.
Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
Except to pay out the ass for a technically elementary site that only succeeded through Google's failure to market Google Video. People do not see Google as something users contribute to; they see it as a source of information that is culled automatically by scouring the Web. Google Video? If anyone even knows where to find it, they most likely assume it's just a search engine for video. I've never even seen the "homepage" for Google Video, or how to upload clips.Google hasn't done anything wrong? Wrong. Google Video failed for obvious reasons, and stockholders should be apoplectic over this gross expenditure on YouTube.But no. The stupidity that dominates our society more and more rears its head even amongst the august "analysts" that hold forth on Wall Street, who overlook the fact that this site has no business plan and if it ever devises one, it will never be worth the money or justify purchasing rather than developing one in house.