Amazon has long used its customers comments to help sell books. Customer reviews and recommended book lists have led the way. (I wonder if that makes them a pioneering web 2.0 company?)
Now Amazon has joined the video age.
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Author Archive | Ken McCarthy
TurnHere – Again
When I started this blog two years ago (after patiently waiting eleven years for Internet video to catch on), one of the first companies I featured was a modest little start-up called TurnHere.com
I really liked TurnHere.com’s model which was …
Download YouTube, Google and Metacafe Videos!
VideoPiggy is an Application for Windows XP and Vista that will let you download videos straight from YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe. This program even has built in Video Conversion to watch videos on your PC, iPod, PSP, or Cell …
Internet video watchdogs
Internet video has created some interesting new business opportunities.
Viacom pays $100,000 per month to have its copyrighted videos scrubbed from YouTube. “Video analysts,” the employees who spend their days searching YouTube and other online video services for copyright infringements, …
Will video crash the Net?
You’re going to hear a lot on this topic in the months and years to come.
In a way, it’s an old concern. The web’s inventor was reportedly furious with Marc Andreessen for creating the image tag because he was …
The winner: video customer reviews
In advertising, we call them “testimonials,” but in truth customers couldn’t care less about them.
What they really want are real life case studies if they’re business buyers, or product reviews from other customers, if they’re consumers.
When we, the …