Zudeo has a shot to be OurTube
Posted on December 9, 2006
Filed Under Business, Technology, Computing |
…to go further than the other video sharing apps. Except maybe Democracy, but I have not had a chance to try out the new version that is advertised to run much better. I’d hope so, since the reason I stopped using it was bloated reasource hog and sloowwww. Getting back to Zudeo, it is an audio and video publishing and consuming app built on top of the Azureus Bittorrent client.
Why is this better than YouBoob, sorry, YouTube? It is a matter of business model. YouTube was burning through all of its VC funding to pay for all the broadband access so those bits can travel through the tubes and get to your computer. Google has deep pockets to let it go on for much longer than YouTube could have, but Google management are very smart at making money, and axeing none money makeres (e.g., Google Answers). If the cost of filling the interweb tubes PLUS A DECENT RATE OF RETURN (business is not zero-sum game) is greater than the revenue, then YouTube will will be lights out…. Now they didn’t spend $1.45B without the expectation that they could make loads of cash, but I don’t see it. The models that have been bounced around are still too focused on the old world, and the cash of the big networks. Zudeo offers producers of content the same capabilities of YouTube, but it does not concede that your content is at the mercy of the distributor (i.e., YouTube, GoogleVideo, etc.) because it can live on travelling through the BitTorrent tube. The cost is diffused by all the users, and is nominal at most for the heavy users or zero for the rest. This lessens the chance of the company at the centre of it all going broke because of $20M/month Internet bills. And since this post is getting long on economics and short of flashy videos, here is a great short:
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