Web video as it stands today has some major distinguishing qualities that have barely been explored. The mere fact that a web video is usually experienced alone, while movies and TV are experienced in groups gives it an important first-person intimacy that you don’t find elsewhere.
I would just hate to see things like that get lost in the shuffle.

And what about interactivity? I hope its not a passing fancy that we’re willing to sacrifice just because its more comfortable to sit on your couch and use a remote to watch videos.

Anyway – thanks to NewTeeVee for helping to keep track of this whole movement.

It gets REALLY interesting when we get to the point where the population at large can watch video wherever they want, whenever they want, without thinking too hard about how it works.

CES and SXSW are starting to hint at that, but we’re still a ways away from these things being seamless.

That time is coming. Thanks for continuing to point how that path lays out.

And Evan raises another one of my favorite points about findability. One of the things I’ve been hearing here in Austin is about how, no matter how good your content is, unless it’s ‘promoted’ it may never find an audience. Hopefully social networks matched with low-level artificial intelligence could take a lot of the guess work, and maybe marketing dollars, out of the equation.

We see this today with recommendation engines and social networking capabilities. But, these need to move to the next level.

Remember the story from a few years back “why does my Tivo think I’m gay?”

When software can learn my likes and dislikes over time and match that against other people I tag and then deliver–automatically–great content to me, then we have a revolution.