We pat ourselves on the back for prescient pontificating--if you look back several weeks ago, we shouted out that interactive, live video broadcast applications, including pay-per-view platforms will be the next 'big thing' for those in the talking head industry.
Lo and behold, Google's top guns just announced they too share the wisdom, and that Goog will be launching a platform allowing people to video chat between themselves. Although AOL and MSN have supported this application for a long time (just plug in a web cam and a microphone, and you're there), its nice to see that Goog's senior product management team "gets it". (That said, we had shouted out to Goog 4 years ago that adwords needs to support demographic zoning and targeting of ads, it took them another 2 1/2 years to introduce it..)
Here's a quote:
"..people love being able to watch something exactly as it happened," wrote Google product manager Serge Lachapelle.
"And as webcams have become popular, more and more of us are realizing that video is the next best thing to an in-person conversation."
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