French multimedia giant Vivendi could soon be launching a multimedia Web site for the third screen, reports Les Echos. The company has set up a new unit, Vivendi Mobile Entertainment with the goal of developing this new portal, which is being compared to Myspace or YouTube, and will offer music, video, film and game content from Vivendi and other partners. The service will be a paid site, and the story reports that it will likely launch in France this fall with a roll out to other European countries to follow.
Vivendi to launch multimedia site this year to rival YouTube, MySpace – report [Les Echos via Forbes]
I’ve been reading your blog and have enjoyed your opinions very much. Your topics on Web2.0 are very interesting to me since I have co-founded a small company in this area. My partner and I started LiveLook (www.livelook.com) in 1998, after being frustrated with the lack of one site to find outdoor webcams in certain locations. We had a vision of creating one global collection of webcams for users to search based on geography or other tags, and we’re slowly getting there. We are really passionate in this area so I have one question for you…
As a thought leader in this space, how do you see the industry of live video evolving? Will this grow from the current focus on stationary webcams delivering static content, to individuals delivering live video content through mobile devices? And how will vertical search play a role in this evolution?
Your thoughts would be appreciated – this is an area I’m very passionate about.
Thanks,
Randy Felts
Boulder, CO
randy@livelook.com
Comment by Randy Felts — May 26, 2007 @ 7:05 pm