Have you head of Internet? It’s this amazing unregulated place that has conservative politics, emoticons, leaked manslaughter trial documents and no screenfuls of “GO TO HELL”.
April 26, 2007
March 23, 2007
Trying to figure out what the deal is with Viacom suing Google? Serious Corespondent Demetri Martin explains it all on this Daily Show segment (Daily Show is owned by Viacom) hosted here on YouTube (owned by Google of course). The YouTube video was eventually taken down by Viacom, so here it is on Comedy Central.
October 10, 2006
With the news of YouTube’s $1.65 sellout to Google, I thought I’d take a look at an early email exchange I had with Steve Chen, one of YouTube’s founders. Back in July of last year I tried out YouTube for the first time, as I was hungry for checking out the emerging world of video sites. With in a couple of days, Steve messages me thanking me for trying out the service. This was a couple months before Webzine happened and I pitched Steve on YouTube being a sponsor. Here’s what he to say at the time:
Date: July 24, 2005
hi eddie:
good to hear back from you so quickly!
we should chat some more. i believe the next 6-12 months, we’re going to be experiencing a dramatic shift in personal publishing. i think similar to bloggers vs traditional journalists, similar to podcasters vs traditional broadcasters, we’ll be seeing a similar trend with videoblogging vs traditional media.
furthermore, i think YouTube is special in that it caters to a much wider audience than videobloggers. i see a lot of family videos of babies, friends videos of college, so on.
along these lines, i also think within the next 2 years, the web will become much richer of an experience. video codec incompatibiities will be a thing of the past. so on, so on.
in any case, i’d love to hear your feedback, on-going.
regarding the webzine 2005 — i know about the conference. however, as we’re very much still in a start-up mode that it’ll be difficult for us to drum up the funds to become a sponsor. but who knows, maybe things will change in September.
-s
Maybe Steve meant October. I’ll be hitting you up next year, Steve. He’s right, the web is a much richer experience. Video codec incompatibilities aren’t quite a thing of the past yet, though Flash has done much to get us closer to that day.
