Showing posts with label MySpace. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Move over YouTube?

MySpace founder Brad Greenspan has decided to compete with YouTube through a new platform called LiveVideo. What is LiveVideo? According to him it's like YouTube on steroids, and better, LIVE. Meaning that you can interact, blog, talk, and video all at the same time and on real time.

LiveShow boasts interactive features such as LiveTextChat, LiveCoHost and
LivePolls to encourage social interaction with a real-time community.

However, like everything else, being LIVE is not necessarily being better. While I can think of various interesting ways to use this platform to enhance our communication and expand our relationships, critics fear it will become a haven for pornography.












Unfortunately, critics are right. This is a screen cap of today's home page of LiveVideo. As you can see, pronography rules at this site.

LiveVideo is not a bad idea as this is where I see social network sites moving towards. However, it is a bad execution in the sense that no controls are added to safeguard users from having to be exposed to unwanted content.

What do you think? Can you "ideate" how to use this in a communications plan?