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Is Social Video Chatting The Future?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Darren Waters over a th BBC’s dot.life has presented an interesting article about a potentially revolutionary application called Seesmic. The creator of this software, Loic LeMeur, believes the future of online video is not the standard Youtube/Google Video type model, based on b ... Continue reading »

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  • Victoria Pickering

    1 year ago

    I don't think that video will make an effective Twitter-like communication tool because it takes far too long to watch video compared to the speed of scanning text. While video is much more interesting and complex than text, I'd guess that the number of conversations one could watch would be far less than 10% of the number of Twitter messages one could skim or read in the same amount of time. What to me would be the most interesting product would be something that combines the complete text of the message (not just tags) paired with optional video - so you can scan through the texts quickly and then choose to watch the videos for a small subset of them.
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  • joelogon

    1 year ago

    It bears repeating -- the time required to consume video continues to be its limiting factor.

    Also, it gets problematic with more complex interactions -- multiple participants, or referring back to previous conversations (quoting/replying).

    Not to say that video can't still be useful (especially video used in conjunction with text) -- just needs to be in a way that scales.
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