I’m getting my geek on.First, I rediscovered del…
January 29th, 2007 | by Jeremy |I’m getting my geek on.
First, I rediscovered del.icio.us today. It’s a website where you can keep all of your bookmarks. Then, you can access your friends’ bookmarks or search bookmarks by topic or see which bookmarks are the most popular. It’s been around since late 2003, so it’s not new, but it’s pretty cool. Or maybe you’ll think it’s completely stupid. Who am I to say what you’d be interested in? You can go there and check out my bookmarks if you want.
Next, I’m slowly progressing on some website ideas. I purchased a new domain name from Discount Domain Registry, opened a hosting account with Laughing Squid and I’m going to use WordPress to make the page. Stay tuned.
In other news, YouTube is going to share revenue with people who post videos on their site. Details are none, but I expect it to work something like this: Once you upload a video, you’ll have the option of having YouTube run a 15 second video ad before your video when someone clicks on it. In exchange, YouTube will pay you one-tenth of a cent each time your video is viewed. Probably more than that, but don’t expect to quit your day job unless you’re getting hundreds of thousands of video views per week. Still, now anyone who posts a video of a Peep getting burned alive can make a little money off of it.
This is great because it gives independent video producers a chance to make money without worrying about having to sell the advertising themselves. You’ll begin to see more people making a living off of low budget video content. It will erode the viewership of the major broadcast networks, but that’s fine by me. Video viewing has been becoming more and more fragmented ever since the advent of cable. Now with the Internet, podcasts and cell phones, we’ll spend more time watching video, but no single entry will have as much power over what we’re watching as they did in the 60’s. Power to the people.
2 Responses to “I’m getting my geek on.First, I rediscovered del…”
By dan on Jan 30, 2007 | Reply
We are del.icio.us.ly networked.
Are you using netvibes yet? Or do you still visit web sites?
http://www.netvibes.com/
Glad to see your posts have titles … {borat}very niiice{/ borat}
By Erik on Feb 4, 2007 | Reply
I too enjoy You Tube and think people will continue to flock to low budget video content rather than the major network stuff. However, I don’t think there will be much of a chance for independent video producers to make money. I don’t think we will see “more people making a living off low budget video content”, unless the people you are referring to is You Tube. Someone may have his/ger talents discovered on You Tube which would lead to a contract with a mjor corporation. That could work.
NPR was discussing the 2006 rise of You Tube. One of their experts said You Tube will end up being more about those who want to share content with their friends/family as opposed to those who want to be come famous. Now there will always be people trying to become famous through You Tube, and it will happen, but to what extent?
The independent movie producers will be much like the 49ers of the gold rush. The 49ers aren’t the ones who made the money but those who provided the supplies, or ran the saloons, etc. In this case that would be the distributor, You Tube, or manufactures of the equipment people will use.
Finally, I think You Tube champions those who are even a step below the independent producers, the averge Joe. You didn’t need to go to film school to get your stuff on Tou Tube. Heck, all you need is a a phone that shoots video. I will continue to watch You Tube rather than major network televeision for those inside jokes for me and six of my friends. More on an America’s Funniest Home Videos level rahter than an independent film festival. And someday, the networks will reinvent themselves. It will be later than they should have, after they’ve lost way too much market share. But major corporations will still distribute the most popular stuff and independent movie producers will still be independent movie producres. But the average Joe will have a little more power, and You Tube (Google) will have a little more money.