Comments on: Another Post about GooTube, descending rapidly into specious generalisations http://twopointouch.com/2006/media/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/ web 2.0, blogs and social media Mon, 30 May 2011 20:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ian Delaneyhttp://twopointouch.com/2006/media/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-829 Ian Delaney Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:45:01 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/10/10/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-829 Well, from that perspective Google has no paying customers... Agreed, though, that monetising YouTube does face challenges to make the most of its potential. I think there are many ways it could do this, which aren't so very difficult to figure out. Well, from that perspective Google has no paying customers…

Agreed, though, that monetising YouTube does face challenges to make the most of its potential. I think there are many ways it could do this, which aren’t so very difficult to figure out.

]]> By: Michael Urlockerhttp://twopointouch.com/2006/media/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-826 Michael Urlocker Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:51:37 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/10/10/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-826 Is that worth $1.6 billion? No, because YouTube has no base of paying customers. For all the hype of Web 2.0 and other nonsense, there is no better indicator of a bad business than an absence of paying customers. YouTube has a tremendous potential. I think it could become as important as CNN. And it may become an advertising venue. But so far, this is all only potential. The challenge ahead is for Google to convert a potentially disruptive form of media into a real business. Some of the questions Google and any other buyer of a mega-acqusition must ask itself: * What is it about this merger target that consumers value and pay for? * What are the special attributes of this business that advertisers value and pay for? More questions at: http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/10/16bmerger_whats.html Is that worth $1.6 billion? No, because YouTube has no base of paying customers. For all the hype of Web 2.0 and other nonsense, there is no better indicator of a bad business than an absence of paying customers.

YouTube has a tremendous potential. I think it could become as important as CNN. And it may become an advertising venue. But so far, this is all only potential.

The challenge ahead is for Google to convert a potentially disruptive form of media into a real business.

Some of the questions Google and any other buyer of a mega-acqusition must ask itself:

* What is it about this merger target that consumers value and pay for?
* What are the special attributes of this business that advertisers value and pay for?

More questions at:
http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/10/16bmerger_whats.html

]]> By: Ian Delaneyhttp://twopointouch.com/2006/media/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-815 Ian Delaney Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:19:17 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/10/10/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-815 Google has a charity arm - They have donated $1bn to google.org which does the sort of thing you're talking about. Check out this link: http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/09/googleorg_seeks.php Google has a charity arm -
They have donated $1bn to google.org which does the sort of thing you’re talking about.

Check out this link:
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/09/googleorg_seeks.php

]]> By: Marc - Stuck @ the Marriotthttp://twopointouch.com/2006/media/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-810 Marc - Stuck @ the Marriott Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:13:40 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/10/10/another-post-about-gootube-but-descending-rapidly-into-specious-generalisations/#comment-810 If they had spent $1.6B on college scholarships for poor African and other 3rd wolrd students then they could have made a big difference. If they had spent $1.6B on college scholarships for poor African and other 3rd wolrd students then they could have made a big difference.

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