Just like making every letter and image clickable does not mean every webpage is now a useless mess of adverts, so making every pixel in a video clickable will not mean that videos become a useless mess of adverts.
It creates the possibility for us to create endlessly networked videos without using text, where moving people and things and parts of the frame will be clickable in just the same way that words and graphics are. Web pages have moved from "CLICK HERE" blue underlined links to quiet intuitive links - words that only highlight when you roll the mouse over them and the coolness of the New York Times site where you can double click any word on the page to get a definition or history. In the same way, hypervideo will soon move away from having visible overlays to tell you that you can "Click here" - you'll be able to tell what you can click by rolling your mouse over a person or a thing. But we're just at the beginning, so there'll be some mess to begin with. When it's mature though, we won't be able to believe that we ever watched inert TV and videos. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 12-Nov-08, at 1:02 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Just for conversations sake, what do you like about "video is the new webpage"? Sure, we already have "banner ads" on videos, what other webpagey thing would you be excited about on your videos? I really hope New Cinema will not want to be Old Webpage. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Adriana Kaegi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that is the greatest thing i heard today > "video is the next webpage"! > yehhhhhh that makes me smile! > > --- On Wed, 11/12/08, schlomo rabinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<schlomo %40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > From: schlomo rabinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <schlomo%40gmail.com>> > > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Buy this song > > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 3:45 PM > > > Well that just depressed me. > > > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > > http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress > > http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking > > AIM:schlomochat > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, sull > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <sulleleven%40gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > In other words, video is the new webpage. > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:57 PM, schlomo rabinowitz > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <schlomo%40gmail.com><schlomo%40gmail.com> > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I agree; I think some viewers will click and > > purchase. > > > > I also predict that videos on the youtubes will > > be obscured with dozens > > > of > > > > little text boxes. All of them > > linking/selling/contextualizing the video > > > to > > > > death so that the video is just the delivery > > mechanism for these little > > > > boxes of commerce and comments. > > > > > > > > I'm only kinda kidding. But I do kinda > > believe it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > > > > http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress > > > > http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking > > > > AIM:schlomochat > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
