I like Joost, but the question i keep asking about these "players": Why aggregate on the Desktop / Player? It just feels like the player will eventually be ubiquitous - you will play your media on whatever device you are currently on - Desktop, iPod, XBox 360, Car TV, Airplane TV - whenever you want access to what you want to watch, you will be able to get it.
Web-based aggregation just makes so much more sense if you look at it from the perspective of what aggregators should do best: 1) Help people discover great content, and help content creators gain audiences. 2) Give people tools to organize and share that content with others. 3) Provide an easy mechanism to enjoy that content on whatever device / player the consumers and creators want. Our belief is that the aggregators that do these three things well will provide value and rise up above others. It just makes so much more sense for this to be web-based and be independent of the type of content (viral, vlogs, MSM). The future will be about people enjoying content from CNN and Rocketboom, Scrubs and Ask a Ninja, The Office and Goodnight Burbank. It is very similar to how i read news today - Wall Street Journal and PaidContent.org, Business 2.0 and TechCrunch, etc... Andrew - fell free to give me a call if you want to discuss. 310-927- 7841. Thanks, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 310-927-7841 (cell) Y: fsinton Skype: fsinton http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover, Collect, and Enjoy great videos and podcasts Our blog: http://mefeedia.com/blog --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, Joost had initial buzz because of their previous record with Skype. > > And that buzz helped lead to a lot of deals. > > One question will be how much promotion those partners will give joost (as > opposed to their other partnerships and own sites), so it could potentially > move beyond everyone who wanted an invite because of buzz (and scarcity). > > And how well they can scale. People used to tv just working > aren't going to come back if joost crashes their computer (particularly > if they can get the same content elsewhere). > > They also need better information on the shows people might not > be familiar with. > > Another is if the advertising will be more creative than other efforts. > > For an ad based model to work, at the very least they need to better > understand > the medium. When I watch a Fox show on myspace, they show the same damn > ad I'm not interested in in the first place four times. So I just hit mute > for 30 seconds > and read (or do something else during the ad). > > Ofcourse, I usually do the same thing when I'm watching old fashioned tv, > but... > > -- > Steve Rhodes > > http://ari.typepad.com > > http://tigerbeat.vox.com blogs > > http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos > > http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles & sites > > http://twitter.com/tigerbeat > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
