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VideoEgg-TypePad: Say what?
I just tried using the new drag-and-drop video upload service from VideoEgg on this blog (New Media Musings runs on TypePad).
After downloading the app and trying to publish a short video, I was told that the service accepts no videos longer than 2 minutes.
They must be joking.
I'll try again when they get serious.
November 7, 2005 at 01:46 AM in Video | Permalink
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Well, it IS a beta after all. There seem to be a lot of unrealistic dreams of FREE video hosting solutions being presented these days. Like their predecessors in the dot com boom, there better be a business model to back it up or either a) the quality of service will plummet to unuseable levels or b) the company will go bust and the technology will be sold to someone who can make the money off it to keep it on the web. For instance, who's supplying the venture capital for blip.tv (beta)? Anyone providing bandwidth on the web knows that this site costs plenty to run.
Posted by: Oddible at Nov 7, 2005 9:22:47 AM
a) i'm sick of the beta excuse. everything is beta! unless it's alpha, in which case we're *really* not supposed to complain about it. bah. this comment is beta so don't complain. ;)
b) the end user just does not give a damn about business models and venture capital. they want something that works. and they don't want to waste time fiddling with a technology only to find out its limitations make it virtually useless.
Posted by: barb dybwad at Nov 8, 2005 10:33:52 PM
The end user can pay for it then, or wait until the beta is done. If you don't want to fiddle, don't use beta software. No, everything is not beta, though I tend to agree that that term is getting overused (GMail for example). The whole concept of 'beta' is that the idea isn't complete - isn't done, the developer knows it but is satisfied with the product enough that they can release it to consumers to get further feedback.
The point of my above post is that a) everyone wants high tech, and b) everyone wants it for free, but unfortunately you can't typically have both. The concession with GMail is that they read your mail and post ads related to your content. My above comment is a question more than anything. What are the concessions we as consumers are willing to make because bandwidth most certainly isn't 'free' for the host. Do you want a Flickr that let's you host but then sells off and makes you get Yahoo addresses? or, Do you want to test a 2 min video beta for software that can be hosted by any third-party? Remember that Six Apart sells their enviroment to other hosts - if you are the end-user, then the Six Apart beta may not be for you. If you are a host who is considering offering a video hosting solution and are excited about what these guys have to offer then give it a whirl and help them make it great.
Again, if you are reading this blog, you are probably not the unsavvy end user. A beta is NOT typically a 'useful', end-user tool so stop expecting it to be so (yes, the word has been bastardized in the public vernacular by folks like Google). Beta is not an excuse, it is a reality of the development process.
Posted by: Oddible at Nov 9, 2005 12:23:07 PM
