Night Float
Posted February 22, 2006 09:59 PM
Tonight is the first night of my wife's two weeks of night float at the hospital. Basically over the next two weeks me and the kids will never occupy the house at the same time as her except for this lone saturday. Otherwise, we are on our own. Naturally, she's bored sitting in the lounge and in between answering pages wishes that she had a dvd player. I told her she does. I told her that she just needs to try out videosift, youtube, itunes, and googlevideo and emailed her the links.
Now while, I'm on the subject of youtube, here are Matt Haughey's and Jason Calacanis' thoughts on the subject.
Haughey - Rambling about blogging and TV: "I'd argue that YouTube is the king of this movement because they have such loose and lax legal guidelines. Of course, everyone that uploads claims they own the copyright and got release forms from everyone involved and cleared anything seen on camera, blah, blah, blah, but in reality, it is totally lawless and people are basically uploading random interesting TV bits they dump right off their computer. It reminds me of Napster in 1999, totally interesting, and totally illegal in the eyes of IP lawyers."
Calacanis - YouTube is not a real business: "YouTube.com gets some ink in the New York Times today. The piece spends a decent amount of time explaining the success of the site: it's makes money off other people's IP."
But unlike Napster, I'd have to argue that alot of this stuff is user created. Check out this video for example: