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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Why are these people? 
Where O.1
A central point the left and right both miss
| | In Watering the Net Roots, I list a number of things that must be done to get the Net deployed seriously at the local level (and make the U.S. more competitive in the process). The key piont: |
| | Something big is getting missed in the fight between carriers and local governments, and many side-takers on both the right and the left are equally blind to it. What's missed is serious and widespread market demand for high-speed data connections — specifically connections that are not subordinated to television. |
Production farming
| | There is absolutely no reason why you couldnt subscribe from your DVR to a CBS "User Generated Content" feed that has the same content as what they offer to their Youtube Subscribers. The difference of course being its in TV or HDTV quality. The content would be delivered through your cable or satellite provider. There is no limit to the number of content providers , large or small that could offer subscriptions. |
| | What about pure user generated content ? What about people's cat, kids and response videos ? Simple. |
| | Comcast, DirecTV, Dish, Time Warner, Charter, Insight, Cox, any cable or satellite provider could easily offer a website that allows users to upload content the same way they upload to Youtube. |
| | All those carriers would be wise to listen to Mark. As I said a month ago, The incumbent carriers need to ... start thinking about advantages of incumbency that aren't about leveraging legacy business models and customer lock-in strategies for the duration. |
| | But the opportunities are here: Rather than just fighting Google in Congress, compete with Google (which now owns YouTube) in the marketplace — just by taking advantage of the fact that your customers are producers as well as consumers. |
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