--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Sinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
There are at least two benefits for Joost in sending the videos through their own player: 1: You never get to download the videos, so you have to keep coming back to Joost to see that video. That leads to a better ability to account for how many views a particular video or channel gets. 2: They can place those ridiculous ads wherever they want to. They wouldn't be able to do that if you were watching Joost videos in Quicktime player or on your iPod. -- Bill C. http://VlogDeathmatch.com > 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" <srhodes@> > 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] > > >
