Comments on: It’s official – Google have decided to kill all of YouTube’s competitors http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/ The original Mr Angry... Finding something to be angry about every day of the year Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mr Angry http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28555 Mr Angry Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:13:41 +0000 http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28555 Daniel: it will be interesting to see how they do it - it has the potential to be an absolute minefield. My bet is they get a lot tougher with video content. Massif: yeah, none of us know anything really ;) tom: good points, it won't be easy to sort out. I imagine the Google folk have been working hard to come up with solutions to pluf those holes. They have click fraud issues already so maybe they know how to handle it. Daniel: it will be interesting to see how they do it – it has the potential to be an absolute minefield. My bet is they get a lot tougher with video content.

Massif: yeah, none of us know anything really ;)

tom: good points, it won’t be easy to sort out. I imagine the Google folk have been working hard to come up with solutions to pluf those holes. They have click fraud issues already so maybe they know how to handle it.

]]> By: tom http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28544 tom Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:07:30 +0000 http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28544 is this revenue sharing really going to amount to more than a token for the bit player? people are already posting other people's content like crazy, how can that get sorted out? paying by "view" will obviously generate new click-fraud opportunities. it's got to be a gimmick or else it'll just be a hassle (for everyone). nostrathomas is predicting that the future of "online video" is near complete ownership of everything by the major media (which now includes google and yahoo, etc ...), and that youtube is just another example of an early gold rush stage, a little bubble in time. and who isn't a bit sick and tired of shit like "girl falling off a motorcycle" anyway? is this revenue sharing really going to amount to more than a token for the bit player? people are already posting other people’s content like crazy, how can that get sorted out? paying by “view” will obviously generate new click-fraud opportunities. it’s got to be a gimmick or else it’ll just be a hassle (for everyone).

nostrathomas is predicting that the future of “online video” is near complete ownership of everything by the major media (which now includes google and yahoo, etc …), and that youtube is just another example of an early gold rush stage, a little bubble in time. and who isn’t a bit sick and tired of shit like “girl falling off a motorcycle” anyway?

]]> By: Massif http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28478 Massif Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:54:41 +0000 http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28478 I think it may backfire, as they'll be inundated with more professional outfits; which will put off the kind of people who want random shit. Which is a shame, because it's the random shit people who so often turn into contributers. But then, I didn't think anyone in their right mind would value a search engine at $15bn, and that a dual-screen handheld games console was a bit of a gimmick, that £200 was a ridiculous amount to pay for something which plays music, that no-one would ever buy video through iTunes and that 512kbps was more than enough bandwidth for anyone. (oh, and that our 486 didn't need anything more than 4MB of memory.) I think it may backfire, as they’ll be inundated with more professional outfits; which will put off the kind of people who want random shit.

Which is a shame, because it’s the random shit people who so often turn into contributers. But then, I didn’t think anyone in their right mind would value a search engine at $15bn, and that a dual-screen handheld games console was a bit of a gimmick, that £200 was a ridiculous amount to pay for something which plays music, that no-one would ever buy video through iTunes and that 512kbps was more than enough bandwidth for anyone. (oh, and that our 486 didn’t need anything more than 4MB of memory.)

]]> By: Daniel Gr http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28418 Daniel Gr Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:17:25 +0000 http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/its-official-google-have-decided-to-kill-all-of-youtubes-competitors/#comment-28418 I expected them to, but not so soon. I think "my TV network" will be able to compete with true Swedish content and higher quality both content and bideo quality wise, though, so - I'm in a safe house of more traditional TV broadcasting. A big blow to the others, though, I believe. Though I believe Google's offerings will be rather poor. I expected them to, but not so soon. I think “my TV network” will be able to compete with true Swedish content and higher quality both content and bideo quality wise, though, so – I’m in a safe house of more traditional TV broadcasting.

A big blow to the others, though, I believe. Though I believe Google’s offerings will be rather poor.

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