Ive always been interested in stuff like this. For a few years I hoped to contribute towards making it happen for the vlogging community, but a combination of factors always put me off, ranging from technology limitations to not wanting to fragment this community (eg some people just want to stick with a straightforward mailing list), and also the idea that once video on the net really took off, communities may form around specific genres/subjects and an overall 'vlogging community' would be too broad and redundant.
Once the likes of youtube, facebook and twitter got massive, I became quite interested in whether we could have a form of decentralised social networking where each individual had full control over their content and how/where its hosted, but somehow these fragments could be aggregated together in a very sophisticated way to create cohesive communities. The dominance of certain corporate entities, the lack of technical people to put the vast time in to make it happen for free, my own negativity, how quiet this group for for a few years means I havent bothered, but I remain rather interested in the subject. I expect things may evolve in this direction over the next decade, but Im not sure 'the videoblogging community' (whatever that is) will be the driving force, and the situation still remains complex due to the dominant players. There are still lots of walls out there, even though progress has been made with API's etc, specific platforms rule the waves, and pick'n'mixing features from different providers is not as doable as it should be. This was certainly not helped by most video hosts trying to build social networking and community stuff into their own services, leading to the wrong sort of fragmentation, something that first showed up in terms of people complaining about people commenting on their videos on the hosts site rather than on their own blog. At least the dust has settled from those giddy years when there was so much hype and hope from certain companies dreaming that they would dominate, and where community-based stuff ran out of momentum or people tried to cash in to get some return for their efforts, with fairly predictable results. I think Ive finally recovered from the time I became an aggressive nightmare when faced with a few dicks who thought they were going to become the new media moguls. Mind you even if the dust has settled Ive got less clues about where the net may be going than at any point in the past, so i tend to restrict myself to drooling over things like 3d accelerated css and multitouch devices and what that could mean for how people navigate the web in future. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe <rup...@...> wrote: > > I know we return to this every so often - how to add more > functionality to this list... I just had a thought, so I wanted to > jot it down here while it was still fresh. > > It seems to me that we could benefit from a Facebook-style, Ning-style > or Drupal-based site where we could have this same kind of disussion > forum, but where we could also upload/link a lot of other content - > particularly videos - and connect in other ways. > > What I want is a bridge between RSS, Twitter, threaded discussions, > community hub and information archive. > > I want a non-corporate community-owned place where I can go, where > there are lots of online video people, where I can: > > a) post links to things of interest (i do that here sometimes) > b) Bookmark videos I like (harder to do that here) > c) chat in asynchronous twitter style but with preserved threads that > allow more than just statement > response > end > d) talk about more serious internet video things (i do that here) > f) Bookmark whole sites/channels/videoblogs, like a vlogroll, but much > larger, and with an aggregated directory of all sites for everyone to > browse, in categories. > g) Form groups for different types of people/sites/channels/videos/ > interests > h) post other types of content - photos, etc > i) a place for people to come up with & coordinate collaborative > projects and challenges like vbweek > j) an archive like the videoblogginggroup Wiki for sharing advice & > suggestions > > Oh my god, this sounds like Facebook for online video people. But I > HATE Facebook. So how come? I think what I hate most about Facebook > is the lack of boundary between people from different parts of your > life - work, home, hobbies, etc. I want something like Facebook, but > that's a videoblogging ghetto. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv >
