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fredwilson — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:14:09 -0000

I'm not sure its destroying the fabric of our society as much as knitting a new fabric

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Prokofy — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:56:14 -0000

This future has been here for awhile, even for people like me. We haven't had a TV for years in our family. It's all YouTube, Yahoo news clips, various foreign news Internet sites like BBC, then Second Life, World of Warcraft, Facebook.

Why would you have TV when you can script and prop your own show on something like Second Life? And why sit through endless fires in New Jersey when you only need the one news story you want out of Yahoo?
Of course, this is destroying the civic fabric of the nation and making people think that reality is something they digitalize and select themselves -- and of course, it isn't, and then it has a way of sneaking up on you like swine flu.

There is a future of television, and it isn't just in fracturing into endless Hulu, YouTube, etc. But, it will be in only one of the multiple windows on the big wall panel. Or the floppy plastic sheet that accepts broadcasting and narrowcasting...

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fredwilson — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:07:29 -0000

80's nostalgia! I would have enjoyed that

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fredwilson — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:07:20 -0000

Thanks for the tip

Sounds great

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fredwilson — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:07:19 -0000

I just checked it out

If your friend has any more free time, tell him I'd love a bookmarklet for adding URLs

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Andrea Harrison — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:53:02 -0000

great post. totally agree that the distribution has become super fragmented. someone should be very afraid.

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fredwilson — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:04:51 -0000

Thanks. I'll check it out

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bill_roberts — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:50:27 -0000

I know the feeling - I had a fun couple of hours at the weekend with a few friends, when a casual mention of Transvision Vamp led to an impromptu 80s nostalgia-fest on Youtube.

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CarlosPapiBaez — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:17:22 -0000

If You Like YouTube, You should check www.theBestofYouTube.tv. This website like its name suggest, It lets the viewers watch the best of Youtube in a condense and enjoyable way. So that the viewers won't get tired of watching entertaining videos.This website may need some Venture Capital to keep growing?.Beside, That Its name is part of one of best Landmark of the internet (YOUTUBE).The potential growth of the website is exponentially huge. Plus, its photoshop Images are unique for its gossip blogs.

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Gregg Smith — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:57:10 -0000

Fred (and others interested in the online video segment) check out fivedollarcover.com ...a series of 5-8 minute shorts about the Memphis music scene. Notable artists include Amy Lavere and Snowglobe/Tim Regan (there are some bad ones too, so be warned). Craig Brewer of Hustle and Flow did them and while the acting isn't award-winning, I think its a pretty unique take. MTV is running them Friday nights at 11 and they are all free online. AT&T paid for them.

flipsidememphis.com is a documentary video site with more background on the artists, locations and other assorted Memphis stuff. I was skeptical, but have to admit I'm impressed. Good music with a story produced for the web.

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brianerickson — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:39:46 -0000

what's interesting to me is how google will monetize this content for labels and bands, or if anyone will ever be able to police all the copyright stuff on there.

anybody else familiar with imeem owing record labels $30 million for the sum of all the times a song is streamed on there?

im working on a music industry project so i'm curious to see how it all pans out. bands like radiohead and green day are already trying to get as much of their stuff off of youtube as possible.

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MattCope — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:51:53 -0000

Fred - thanks.

I don't know him, but I thought the Twitter link feed Doug Estadt built for you was a good first cut at this proposition.

I'm with you. I think building queues across platforms (email, sms, FB, twitter, face-to-face), would be extremely useful. My ultimate would be a system that organizes these recommendations by media vertical - socially recommended queues for articles, books, songs, web videos, movies, etc.

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Olivier — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:14:52 -0000

Almost all TVs in Japan have an Ethernet port and integrated web browser built in. The Japanese CE companies even created their own portal that you can access through the menu on your HD TV. I believe the broadcast linear television will continue to exist for many many years... The really hard question is how to bring these two worlds (= Broadcast & Broadband) together in a meaningful way for consumers.

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Adrian Palacios — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:51:24 -0000

Fred,
One of my previous roommates loves web development and didn't like having to embed a new player for each video on his MySpace, blog, etc. He thought it'd be much better to just grab a URL, and add it a playlist for one embedded player.
So, not specifically for queing, but what he built has to the potential of being close to what you want. You can check it out here: http://omgplaylist.com. Right now it only supports five or so sites. Something he did in his (little) spare time :-)

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ppearlman — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:44:02 -0000

sorry fw, worked for me just now again... song called 'sunlight' by three dog night, obscure but totally worth tracking down..

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Dan Buell — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:27:03 -0000

YouTube did for video exactly what I wanted the Internet to do for video, they offered a place to store and share your videos for free. If you think back several years ago and look at all of the copycat services on the web, that’s just amazing. Does the web need 40 video sharing services or more? No. Why then hasn’t YouTube closed the deal, clearly they have the best known brand.

I think YouTube has not locked down the video sharing universe for two reasons, both of which are why I don’t use it personally:

1. The video quality is generally lacking compared to other sites such as Vimeo or even Flickr.

2. There are so many 15 year old kids on YouTube that make it such an unpleasurable experience. Case in point, I’ve posted videos of my family and had comments about how “f@!#ing ugly” they are, threats of rape, etc. I posted a video of John Wayne’s gravesite and got called every name in the book from a “liar” for it not really being John Wayne’s grave because he really isn’t dead to a grave robber who was going to hell. I know I can close or disallow comments but that kind of goes against the whole idea of sharing doesn’t it and I really don’t want to get into specialized invites for a video only page. If I’m going to do that I’m going to build a password protected blog on Wordpress or somewhere like that and host the videos there so that a single password gives friends and family members open access to all of my content.

I think Google really needs to clean up the nonsense on YouTube or it’s going down ultimately. Then again, when it comes to social content, Google has always seems content to not perform to their potential.

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fredwilson — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:01:09 -0000

I think my headline confused people about what I think is the future of tv

Its the ability to get it through the internet onto any devide you want to watch on and the ability to completely control the experience

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Daniel Weinreb — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:51:40 -0000

I don't think YouTube is really the future of TV. At least, I hope that TV in its present form doesn't vanish leaving only YouTube behind. Although some TV is going downhill (particularly the networks, who are focusing on content that's cheap to produce), there are also some great shows on (Mad Men, Damages, The Closer, Life on Mars, and Battlestar Galactica were some of my own recent favorites). I don't expect to see expensive and professional content like this on YouTube unless YouTube changes a lot and we move forward several more big steps in the technology of communicating videos to computers and watching videos on computers.

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fredwilson — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:27:04 -0000

My 18 year old is so into the talking heads these days. I told her to get more songs about buildings and food

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fredwilson — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:26:07 -0000

That link didn't work too well for me phil

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fredwilson — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:04:32 -0000

i agree that third party distribution channels like Hulu are a tough business, but i think Hulu has a chance given that its owned by the content creators

but i agree that the greater value is in the presentation layer that the consumer controls, like firefox or boxee

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GrishaRemake — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:05:45 -0000

I think that relationship between TV and YouTube is the same as relationship between Book Publishers and Public Libraries.
YouTube is not a TV business, it's just a new generation of Public Library - with content that almost impossible to monetize.
Boxee vs Hulu show us that there will be no place for third party distribution channels in Entertainment Industry.
IMHO YouTube and Boxee could make money if they join your Hack Education movement.
The question should be not "How Boxee can help Hulu", but "How Boxee can help Katie Salen and her school?"

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Seth Lieberman — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:00:51 -0000

...and this led to me going and buying some old Talking Heads after watching the MGMT cover....

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fredwilson — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:23:08 -0000

I do that on my tumblog

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Jonathan Tals — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:23:16 -0000

i will try it now, will let u know. thx for the clarification.