[videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Bill Streeter
Yeah I always found the $25 a day number a little misleading too. I don't think that this accounts for the hosting and bandwidth costs either. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Meiser groups-yahoo- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Meiser
Yeah, I forgot about those too... -hosting/bandwidth -equitment -space -time costs It all ads up to not cheap... but we're leveragers... we all make things work buy leveraging tools we already have for things we need... i.e. Amanda's getting some good exposure... as is Andrew... and I'm

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Who says everything should be free (as in beer)? If you want to do something, sometimes that requires an investment of time/money. Especially if you believe that the thing you're starting will actually make money one day and you will be able to recoup your initial investment. -josh On 1/3/06,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Ron Watson
Be careful about thinking like this. I understand that nothing is free, but it is a lot closer to $25/day once the equipment is paid for than it is the huge distribution budgets of, say, Sony, or 20th Century Fox. Personally, I would like to see the $25/ day touted more, as that makes it

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-24 Thread Ron Watson
(from a link from the link below) http://www.ipdemocracy.com/Therefore, if a content or application provider wants higher-speed, higher quality delivery to the customer, some kind of access payment would apply. What’s interesting is not this issue — it’s been widely reported — but a statement by

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-24 Thread Deirdre Straughan
On 12/24/05, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been posting video online since 1998, you know back in the days of the Information Superhighway,and back then, in Dallas, a T1 line was $800. Enter eBusiness and what happened? Bandwidth tripled in a year. Just like that, I was priced out

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-24 Thread Ron Watson
The point of the whole thing was that it was a noble cause when it was being developed, a noble cause led by people just like you, hell maybe even by you. It was going to be the information superhighway then. Then the market took over. There were benefits of the market taking over, for sure, but

[videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-23 Thread David Cronshaw
Let's all for a moment take off our community videoblogging hatsand put on a Google Video business hat. Om Malik has a goodperspective as to what Google Video is intending to do...http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-video-a-new-cash-machine/bdc--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael