I’m beginning to think the fad for social networks is going to start to fade shortly. It’s reaching the mass market, and almost every niche is getting blanket coverage by a range of sites. Almost everything you can think of is being covered in one form or another…
To paraphrase from a film ‘ All the great themes have been turned into themeparks” (Bonus points if you can name the film)
But it seems as if the number of video start-ups and press coverage they are getting is growing close to social networking levels. Now that the implications of Googletube are rocking the foundations of the internet, it’s all about live streaming, peer-to-peer, showing your live webcams etc…
The latest one I’m watching is live TV on web and mobile, with ‘a quality image with no buffering or stopping’, from Skinkers. A potential Joost rival/killer:
“it offers the lure that viewers can “‘click’ on a TV advert exactly as they do on the web but while watching your existing TV channels”.
And, Skinkers says, that can all be done without the TV service having to change any of its existing business processes. A version of LiveStation for Macs is being developed.”
And it’s looking less fanciful when you realise it’s using Microsoft’s LiveStation…allowed as Microsoft owns 10 per cent of Skinkers.
More on The Reg.
It’s safe to say that only 5-10 per cent of the new video start-ups will actually be worthwhile, but the good news for social networking fans is that it will allow some time for the chaff to be sorted from the wheat. At which point it’ll be time for consolidation and the bandwagon to role round again.
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