I still think back to the days when the videoblogging tools were first appearing, and people got carried away with using the term opensource. I was cynical then, suggested the term opensource was just being used as trendy rhetoric by some, or because it seemed in keeping with the way the videoblogging community itself sprang from grass roots.
Well, many months later and theres still virtually no videoblogging tools of any kind that are opensource. There are a few exceptions, and maybe Im out of date, but generally even free services seem to be keeping their code to themselves. Of course I dont believe audioblog ever claimed to be opensource, and sharing code is not the same as sharing basic info about what technology is used anyway. But Ive been wanting to have one final rant about opensource for some time. I wait to see if any of the other principals which some assumed would be automatically attached to vieoblogging, were in fact just naive overexcited assumptions, made ith the best intentions, but with no chance of lasting. Still as videoblogging is esentially various technologies and publishing/delivery mechanisms, I see no reason why any of the other principals/rules/ideas/virtues that people have attached to videoblogging, should necessarily e so. Someone will break them. I look back on early talk from early in the year about sponsorship and other issues, and I sense that assumed principals back then about videoblogging and sponsorship and money in general, are already out of date. Videoblogging can and will be subject to the same principal-destroying influences as everything else in the world is. The ability for anybody with the right equipment to videoblog is where its potential for positive change lies, nowhere else. I dont see why Videoblogging software and web services and the companies and people behind them, will behave any differently to any other kinds of software/services. Back to this specific topic, I dont see anything wrong with asking what technology a service/tool uses, just shouldnt be too surprised if they dont want to say. Steve of Elbows --- In [email protected], Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Kinberg wrote: > > >YouTube and Audioblog are proprietary services. Why should they give > >away their trade secrets because you want to build a competing > >service? I don't understand... > > > > > > perhaps understanding breads customer trust and loyalty? > consider microsoft's channel 9 > > things are changing > knowledge is becoming a commodity > what kind of power is knowledge, if everyone has it? > > often the big proprietary secret knowledge is simply how easy it was to > do something > > markus > > -- > > My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us > > http://apperceptions.org > http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com > http://spinflow.org > http://wearethemedia.com > http://www.corante.com/events/feedfest/ > > aim/ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > skype: msandy > spin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
