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February 13th, 2007scott karp at publishing2 (who i respect immensely) wrote a post the other day about viacom, comedy central and competing with youtube…
his basic point was that if viacom creates a decent video destination and enables embedding, users will migrate over as…it’s all about the content, stupid :)
while i agree with him to some extent, a lot has to go right for viacom…
youtube has the best experience, period…it just isn’t that easy to copy - it’s all about the little things, and no matter what, you can’t duplicate their very real and vibrant community. network effects are kicking in…
plus, i don’t know if others noticed this, but viacom is expiring videos.
What does the “expired” date mean?
Due to licensing agreements we’re unable to keep this clip available on the site past the expiration date. We hope you enjoy it while we have it up.
while this may be ok for destination sites, it doesn’t work for video embeds. thirty days later, content doesn’t work on your site? or it changes to another video? that just won’t fly…
click on the embed link in this video below (see my “update” as well) and you get the following message…“this video expires on: 03/08/2007″
hmmm…perhaps i’m wrong. when you click on the embed link in this video when it’s on comedycentral.com you get the warning that the video expires march 8th, 2007..but, when you click on the embed link here you don’t get that same warning. what gives?
UPDATE (mar. 26, 2007): see my post from today about this and newspapers…btw, as you can see above - i was right, the videos do expire…
