YouTube = Flickr + motion

ECM infrastructure architecture… and unrelated matters.

by pmh @ 8:51 pm on January 18, 2006.

Ok! Let’s get back to something that’s vaguely related to Content, shall we?…

The presentation by Lawrence Lessig mentioned in the update to my Right to Index/Search post is provided through a relatively new video service, YouTube.

YouTube is like Flickr with video… tag, blog, and link to your multimedia.

Which raises the question: why isn’t YouTube Flickr? That is, what is it about multimedia that Flickr didn’t get and so missed this market? Did becoming a Yahoo! company remove the creative urge?

-pmh

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Seun Osewa Says:
May 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
The one word answer to your question is “bandwidth”. Being Youtube is harder and more expensive than being Flickr for that reason. And the revenue is the same – nothing. At least Flickr loses less!

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