On 11/8/05, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well flash, of course. The advantage of flash video is that it'sprobably the most compatible format there is for Internet viewing.Of course the disadvantage is that it's not easy to create a flashvideo,
Sorenson Squeeze does it very nicely and
On 11/8/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But you couldn't replicate the user base, the social part of it in aweek or two...More and more it's about the social network of yourapp/site, which is both good and bad at the same time...
Very true. At what point do we all belong to more
Speaking of Sorenson Squeeze there's also Discreet Cleaner and Cleaner
XL. Actually I guess it's Autodesk Cleaner now since the
acquistion but whatever. I'm not sure what Cleaner costs -
Cleaner XL is a bit more expensive than $99. But just pointing it
out as another industry standard
Well, let's also try not to over-emphasize this space.It is not the responsibility of every new start-up to FULLY adhere to the demands and wishes of the blogging community. There are many, if not more, regular people who want to share video but have little interest in blogging... or at least
oh, and of course, let's not forget that the Audience is larger than the pool of Content Creators.VC's know this. These are the people that they are interested in, afterall so advertisers can 'reach' them as the attention moves from TV to Internet Video... not to mention the millions of
Right.My points are not saying that VC's have no interest in videoblogging. They do. Investors are tapping into it.There is potentially a huge market space for content creators and services that cater to them.
It takes deeper understandings and analysis than the simpler viral video services,
Because it works, works fast, and users are generally willing to
sacrifice quality and freedom for just working... look at the threads
over the past months about ourmedia/archive crapping out, average
ADHD-level user just isn't going accept that as a solution. They also
remove the what version
Good thoughts, Bill.There are many free and cheap flv encoders out there that maybe are worthy of review if it makes more sense to encode yourself opposed to using web services.One that I have tried for Windows is Riva,
http://www.rivavx.comhttp://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoderL=3sull
On
Joshua Kinberg wrote:
On 11/8/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Kinberg wrote:
The thing that I really don't understand about thee sites receiving
funding is that the barrier to entry for competition is so slim. It
wouldn't be too difficult for a developer to replicate
