YouTube Breaking Into MySpace Territory?
Garrett French has the Lowdown on YouTube creeping into MySpace’s backyard with the targeting of musicians and the usage of more personalized profiles. MySpace initially made it big as a central location for music fans to gather and meet on another based upon their musical and pop culture tastes.
Mr. French sees YouTube targeting the active groups of young music fans and perhaps becoming a location where they can share video footage of bands shot with cell phones or camcorders.
Garrett also enjoys the upgraded YouTube profiles:
There’s an “active channels” section on the far-right nav, which shows me 4 randomly refreshed channel profiles of other users (these should be recommended channels based on my viewing history and the videos in *MY channel* but that’s a job for Greg Linden…)
This will encourage more video exploring - which is currently YouTube’s strength when it comes to video navigation.
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Search Engines WEB on Jun 23, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Does it seem possible to anyone that MySpace and YouTube and Digg will Partner to become a HUGE UGC Social Engineering Giant
Just imagine what this would mean to advertising revenue and what extra services could be offered both as a Free and Subscriber based Service?
Gary Bourgeault (thealphamarketer.com) on Jun 23, 2006 at 9:28 pm
It seems to me that this would be an inevitable move by YouTube.
The thing they will need to keep in mind is the same security issues that are hounding MySpace at this time.
They need to take a serious look at where that is leading to before they push themselves too far in that direction.
Garrett French on Jun 25, 2006 at 1:01 pm
for a strong, interesting, as yet unmonetized creative model check out http://www.channel101.com.
The voting is limited to a select few LA humorati, but the quality of the shows are phenomenal. On the whole.
I would also like a way to invest funds - at $50 a pop, using a prosper.com-style interface - in shows that are rising stars.
Also I think YouTube or whoever’s in dire need of a way to actually create “programming” so that I can preload 50 or so videos and watch them straight through.
Not sure why this isn’t there yet.
The digg voting model is strong, but I think, for the best quality user-generated programming, we’re going to have to ultimately rate our judges and give different judges more weight depending on our personal preferences.
In other words, I would like to see the videos on YouTube that Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze think are good more than the ones that the YouTube community as a whole think are cool.
tia on May 30, 2007 at 4:29 pm
than 4 this websites
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