Gabble, Gabble Hey! HP Gets Into Video Sharing
Hewlett-Packard thinks it has a clever online video idea. According to the Bits blog, HP’s new Gabble isn’t trying to take on YouTube directly, rather, it is focused on letting you share videos with only the people you want.
You know, just like Viddyou, Vimeo, Motionbox, Facebook and, oh yeah, YouTube. In fact, Facebook has been extraordinarily successful with personal video lately, generating 415,000 video uploads per day.
This is my favorite paragraph from Bits:
Of course, you can tweak the privacy settings on YouTube or Facebook to do much the same thing. But H.P. tells says that defaulting to private videos makes life easier on the average person. Make of that argument what you will.
Evidently, this is part of HP’s spaghetti strategy, throwing out a bunch of online services until one of them’s a hit. If Gabble takes off quickly, it’ll get support, if not it’ll get taken down pretty quickly. Nothing like the looming threat of disappearance to inspire confidence in consumers looking for a home for their cherished memories.
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Hah.. What a joke.. They have the site locked down and the register link brings me back to the login page..
This site has failed before even being launched.
Gabble has failed before even being launched.. Unable to view site or register.. Registration links punts me back to the login page..
Lame!
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the post. The correct URL for Gabble is hp.com/gabble.
Alex V.
HP Labs
Link updated. Thanks, Alex!
Gabble seems to fill a niche for people who want videos saved for posterity but don’t feel the need to share them outside a circle of friends. Perhaps HP could offer Gabble as a white label service for IM clients that want to offer private storage of video chats.