Om and I sat down this week to discuss the current and future state of video creation and distribution technologies. We both expect many video-related announcements from this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that will bring a wider variety of video consumption products into the living room. We also talked about new ways for amateurs to create and share videos online and using specialized portable hardware such as the iPod video. I don't think any search company currently is doing a good job indexing video content. Even audio content has been a big challenge. Closed-captioning provides a bridge…
Mark Cuban talks at length about replacing the world of DVDs with portable hard drives. He tried a few methods and thinks out loud about how hard drives could work as a distribution scheme….
Sabra Chartrand of the New York Times: "University of Tulsa professor and a former graduate student of his won a patent for software that analyzes and monitors illegal music swapping on file-sharing networks, and then systematically inserts decoy files into the mix."…
U.S. News & World Report has a cover article covering Internet dating. It's long but interesting. One expert comments that online dating "is as important as the automobile was in the 1920s and birth control in the 1960s." I have not had much luck with Match.com, Yahoo Personals, Craig's List or related services. Yes, maybe it is the product being sold and not the sales method that is the real downfall. Friendster tries to remove some of the online dating stigma but I expect them to fail once their business model kicks in. Is there a better solution? Everyone everywhere…
