Beyond YouTube

I think YouTube.com is the biggest Internet video platform. Now it's run by the google, the god of the WWW. Through the whole world, more than a thousand of UCC(User Created Contents) are updated daily. There are a bunch of varieties such like personal life, street report, academic, art, music video, reproduced program, and of course porn. The world is wildly exited at surfing YouTube.

At Internet video portal was in its youth, people felt thirsty for enjoying UCC. YouTube is quite well designed for unskillful people to play it. So, YouTube have been soon filled. There is few guidelines. As looking through category, it's the large percentage that reproduced programs, hot music videos, and sexual stuffs. That's reason why YouTube now make sort of bottom line.

As I mention ahead, from now on the quantity doesn't matter, but the quality. The problem is related to both the consumer and the producer. The consumer considers the verified video, not rerereproduced stuff just made without any edit. Also, the producer is worry that their devoted video is placed next by porn.

Some web engineers find out that problem. There are some good enough video portals.
I sometimes surf researchchannel.org in order to listen a voice of scholar. There are a lot of institutes, research centers, business companies, and universities take a participation to upload valuable videos into researchchannel. Here is the list of contributors.

If you think researchchanel is a little bit boring and unattractive because too academic, I highly encourage ted.com. Ted.com is really cool. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. They said their mission is Spreading ideas. They hold annually TED Conference and award TED Prize and $100,000 in order to stimulate participation.

Also, here is another online video market player, hulu.com. It founded in March 2007, with NBC Universal of GE, FOX of News Corp., and the Walt Disney Company. Hulu's market concept is to help people find and enjoy the world's premium video content. Here is review about 'Growth and expandability of Hulu.com' from Camo's blog. Unfortunately, however, hulu.com offers video service only in America.

Actually, I had term project making business plan in a course of management. At that time, I and my buddies also thought about this kind of instructional video portal. We thought there are both sides around portal. One is video supplier, and other is video demander. We focused to the side of suppliers, because at least we needed to show something we can. We tried to contact some universities and noncommercial public broadcast like EBS. First of all, we contacted our university, POSTECH. At that time, my alma mater opened lectures from famous speakers like Nobel Prize laureates in series, celebrating the university has been open for 20 years. However, they hesitate to join us. I think they might worry who's going to take the proprietary rights of the lecture. Who is that among our portal, university, and speakers?

I think university should have been more brave and cool. Spreading idea is one of what we would like the university to do. It's not commercial business area, but it's good enough opportunity to say WE ARE COOL!

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