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YouTube recently announced the implementation of an education sector within thier vast library of online video content (over 9000 years of continous play at last count), Colleges on YouTube. We’re listed as number on BTW, which either has somet…

oh please, get off your high horse. If everyone got to hear and see every type of content that others created, a lot of valuable content would never be added to the web. Maybe I don’t want to share my video with the world, but I’m comfortable enough with sharing it at my school (or my family, or my bay area dog walking group, or whatever). Oh, and facebook’s API doesn’t mean it’s ‘opening up’, that just means people can write apps to engage all these closed networks in new ways. And an EDU address is still pretty good for keeping people out – even moreso that you have to have friends in your account to view most other profiles (FoF permissions), and that limited profiles exist. Perhaps you should try and get an account somewhere…

The idea that people should be forced into public sharing is absurd. The ‘best of the web’ recognize this, and do not uniformly apply ‘i want to be an exhibitionist’ to all sites that involve sharing (agree with Sailor Moon here). Even if the closed nature of the site isn’t perfect, its still a pretty good proxy.

Putting these things on YouTube is advantageous, since it relieves most Universities’ server hardware of the traffic they’d otherwise recieve.

That, coupled with regional targeted ads (as the other commenter stated above) may be what they’re getting at. I’m probably wrong, but it’s worth a thought.

Here is our podcast for Friday, September 1st, 2006. Today we discuss a new addition from YouTube, The Washington Post playing nice with bloggers again, a new venture by Matt Marshall of SiliconBeat and ISPs trying to exert some control.
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Mainstream people are afraid of contributing to social sites because they’re afraid the wrong people will see their content. A person who is looking for a job may find that a Google search of their name turns up something horrifying. I know someone who has created dozens of blogs and wikis that were password protected because people were afraid they’d get read. (Funny enough, those dozens of blogs and wikis get about one post a week.)

Even behind the firewall, you’ll find that many people are afraid to use a document management system. They’re afraid of transparency, even with their co-workers.

If social systems are going to get more contributors, they need a way to get past people’s fears; YouTube may be going forward to 2008, not back to 2004.

“Substantial: the segment has to be large and profitable enough”: Over 7 mil
“Accessible: it must be possible to reach it efficiently”: Heh, um .. internet!
“Differential: it must respond differently to a different marketing mix” … college students have unique needs and wants
“Actionable: you must have a product for this segment” … tons of advertisers targeting here
“Measurable: size and purchasing power can be measured” … yup.

Social networking has been on fire lately. Friendster, which was thought to be left for dead, just raised $10 million. FaceBook is thinking that it is worth $2 billion. And even a company in the UK ha……

Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.

Just a thought.

YouTube might be able to make selective content distribution a lot more mainstream than it is. So far, it’s pretty tough to show information to some people but not others. Flickr does an OK job with friends/family, though I don’t know how broadly used the features are. Multiply.com does a great job but they’re not that big (but check alexa, they’re growing nicely). If YouTube’s UI for _showeveryone_ vs. _showfellowstudents_ is simple and effective, they may have made a very worthwhile step forward.

They could also do the same for corporate email groups and maybe allow interlinking – something like allowing a person to be a memeber of stanford and google.

Claiming the web will change the “exclusive club” mentality that is ingrained in humanity, seems as short signted as claiming stocks will only go up in 1999.