All I know is that I’m in awe of how YouTube is changing the way we deal with media. I don’t really watch tv, but since I dropped cable, there’s one show that I missed that just had its season premiere - the whole thing was on YouTube in a matter of hours, no ads, unbelievable! All of a sudden, I can watch what I want, when I want - hard to go back to commercial tv after that…
Perhaps YouTube will go the way of Napster. After the legal issues are settled, it will still be around in some form, but hardly recognizable from what it used to be.
There are some survivors of the dot com boom and bust just as there are going to be survivors of whatever is happening now. I’m sure Chinese Pod will be one of them. You have a good thing going with the global classroom and community. But will the business model hold up? When www.jennyzhuliveturoring.com comes on-line, CPod will be in big trouble.
For what it’s worth, I agree with you that the sheer momentum (popularity) of Youtube will see it through…somehow…although I haven’t the foggiest how they can ever hope to overcome the copyright problem.
All I know is that I’m in awe of how YouTube is changing the way we deal with media. I don’t really watch tv, but since I dropped cable, there’s one show that I missed that just had its season premiere - the whole thing was on YouTube in a matter of hours, no ads, unbelievable! All of a sudden, I can watch what I want, when I want - hard to go back to commercial tv after that…
Perhaps YouTube will go the way of Napster. After the legal issues are settled, it will still be around in some form, but hardly recognizable from what it used to be.
There are some survivors of the dot com boom and bust just as there are going to be survivors of whatever is happening now. I’m sure Chinese Pod will be one of them. You have a good thing going with the global classroom and community. But will the business model hold up? When www.jennyzhuliveturoring.com comes on-line, CPod will be in big trouble.
Ken,
What a coincidence - I also wrote a blog article on the Youtube phenomenon yesterday and came up with “Gibbo’s Law” of Youtube:
www.geoffinwuhu.bigblog.com.au
For what it’s worth, I agree with you that the sheer momentum (popularity) of Youtube will see it through…somehow…although I haven’t the foggiest how they can ever hope to overcome the copyright problem.
Geoff Gibson, Melbourne.
I think YoQoo needs a better server it’s very slow compared to YouTube.