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The web is going through a generational shift. From surfing through silos to now being enabled to manage everything, anything and everyone you "socialize" with on the web through your own social portal. This shift will disrupt existing players but provide significant utility to the end users. The Floating App Company is ushering in the next generation of the social web

What Motivates User Generated Video Content?July 8

YouTube has proven to us all that WE LOVE to watch our own content. TV has proven that we love to watch well-produced content. GoYoDeo provides both. GoYoDeo will literally launch the careers of new TV shows, news segments, will-be producers, and more. The guy with the camera might just spend an extra $100 knowing that his or her segment might reach the level of CNN-Online if done right.

GoYoDeo is providing the engine, but everything else comes from the user. Allcontent, organization, traffic, views, ratings, etc… are all driven by the user. It matters not what people create, but rather that they just… well, create.

In addition to ego, there’s another motivating factor that will lead people in droves to GoYoDeo to pick their position of poison: MONEY.

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Whether you are a Content Provider, Channel Manager or Network Administrator, you stand to some coinage with GoYoDeo. And, it’s pretty simple as to how it works.

Advertisers are looking for eyeballs. Period. GoYoDeo will deliver them. Not just at the GoYoDeo website, but everywhere Content, Channels and Networks are published. (B

Will Video Demand Increase?July 8

A CNET News Article states Video may have killed the radio star, but it doesn't have to kill the Internet.

That is if Internet service providers can figure out how to keep up with the video-driven bandwidth demand on their networks. Peer-to-peer technology provider BitTorrent says it can help.

Video consumes more network resources than any other media distributed on the Web. Even poor-quality video from YouTube eats up more bandwidth than e-mail, music downloading, and voice over IP services. And when you throw full-length high-definition video into the mix, you're talking about even more bandwidth. Depending on the compression used, a single HD video stream can eat up 20 megabits per second worth of bandwidth.

And as consumers subscribe to faster and faster broadband connections at home and sites like YouTube and Hulu come online offering all kinds of video choices, more people are watching video on the Web. According to ComScore Video Metrix, Americans are

An All in One Application?June 30

Jumping around from one network to another, reading one blog then going to another and jumping back and forth to your email client seems like a waste of time and technology. The push for "open" is surrounding us yet the silos of information and connectivity remain. Or do they?

This week we witnessed the work of The Floating APP Company, creators of GoYoDeo. The company first released a "floating application for video distribution with custom stations and each having up to 20 channels per station. Things have changed a lot since its original release.

We asked the question, "What Next?" Drew Bourke responded "Soon everything you do on the internet today can will be done without having to jump around from one site to another. You won't even have to open a browser. Our applications will launch directly from your desktop or your cell phone and soon "Your Station" will even be embedded within your cable box for TV viewing. Our mission is to empower people to do more in less time using every social tool imaginable, even those not yet in the market"

We'd say these objectives sound like the ultimate Socialution

Can Your Web Float?June 29

Ever since the web appeared people and businesses have found ways to use it for numerous purposes. Technical engineers have created hundreds of thousands lines of code aimed at creating functionality and features to enhance the web. Over time all this code has created an environment of silos of connectivity and functionality.

In the Web 2.0 world people are now experiencing enhanced functionality and have been enabled to "connect" with others and to "create and distribute" their own media. These new functions and features have drawn hundreds of millions of individuals to the web and the growth rate surpasses any milestone of participation in the history of the web. However the problem of "silo engineering of code" remains and users are screaming for the reverse engineering of the web.

Google pushes for "open social" which is the first step towards a long journey of reducing silos. Doc Searls is working on VRM, Vendor Relationship Management, with the aim of breaking down barriers and enabling businesses and individuals to better manage their relationships with business and other individuals. The movem

How Fast Will Things Change?June 27

Economists think about reality in terms of markets. In practice, a market is just an abstraction, and drawing the limits of markets out of actual information is a difficult task.

Consider the social networking market today and one can easily conclude that the rate of change makes it difficult to actual put boundaries around the definitions of “the market”.

Systemically speaking, some well differentiated markets are transformed into new ones, because of changes in the technology and the demand that cause the products or services of the original markets to end up by serving identical needs to the same customers. In such a situation, firms are faced with big opportunities and big potential drawbacks

Those that is able to correctly foresee the future developments can gain an important head start and position themselves so as to obtain an important competitive advantage. On the other hand, making irreversible investments in the wrong technology can seriously threaten the competitive position of a firm. This is the dilemma all of us.

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