By Ben Homer, July 20th, 2009
YouTube has taken exception to some of the many assumptions commonly made by those in the media referring to their business model or lack thereof and has fired back in a blog post detailing “top 5 YouTube myths.”
Dan Rayburn does a pretty good job of ripping them apart in the Streaming Media Blog, and frankly [...]
By Ben Homer, April 9th, 2009
Alley Insider today has a post written by Ben Wayne, CEO of Fliqz titled YouTube is Doomed.
But before I get into why this unlabeled editorial is incorrect, I think the lack of journalistic integrity here on the part of Alley Insider should be directly pointed out.
Hand it to a site started by Henry Blodget, [...]
By Ben Homer, September 23rd, 2008
With the launch of the G1, the first phone running on the Android OS, Google has officially entered the mobile market and at a price $20 below the iPhone. The phone looks cool, Walt Mossberg seems to like it, a pretty big endorsement, and Open Source is a big step in a positive direction for [...]
By Ben Homer, September 16th, 2008
Chad Hurley’s Google Blog post today on the future of online video is rather bland at first glance. Citing the 13 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, Hurley argues that “online video broadcasting will be the most ubiquitous and accessible form of communication…available on any screen – in your your living room, or [...]
By Ben Homer, July 18th, 2008
The Google blog today has a post on their goal of making Google products available in the 40 languages used by 98% of internet users.
And while this isn’t necessarily video specific, it seems particularly relevant because I have recently spoken to a number of online video producers who have been surprised by the size [...]