LiveVideo.com

[jayhenry]

The NoHoGirls and WeHoGirls are now available on livevideo.com, which appears to be an upstart in the video sharing world.

channels.livevideo.com/nohogirls
channels.livevideo.com/wehogirls

I like the site better than YouTube I think. Obviously it doesn't draw the same audience.

The missing videos where Cara talks about losing her virginity and Brady talks about dating Charlie Cobb are still up on livevideo. Check this site out, interesting stuff.

[lesbrent]

Didn't Daniella say that livevideo.com was a place she was going to be giving sex tips advice?

Not that it was a video sharing place?

Who owns this domain - Paul and Scott?

[jayhenry]

This looks like a serious, well-capitalized entry into the video sharing arena to me. When you sign up it says the site is owned by LiveUniverse, Inc. an LA-based video sharing service that also operates Vidilife.com and flurl.com. It looks like their strategy is to launch a bunch of similar looking sites and hope one of them takes off.

It looks like they've also sued MySpace for anti-trust. CEO is a guy named Brad Greenspan. Looks like he cashed in by investing in MySpace in 2003, and ended up with about 10 percent of their half-billion dollar sale. Not too bad for a 32-year-old. Not Chad and Steve money either. Here's a BusinessWeek story about the guy.

Brad Greenspan in Business Week

[paul]

Wow, you guys are quick!

Yes, the NoHos and WeHo's are on live video. Please think about signing up for an account there and voting for our videos. It still is a meritocracy in ratings there so let's try and make NoHo and WeHo the number one channels on LiveVideo.

And yes, they had NO problem with the Videos that YouTube seemed to think were obscene. Go check them out and judge for yourself.

[Jennifer]

You Tube is where it's at for me.

I know you guys have to think of the commercial side eventually, and explore other places, but I try to limit my net activity to the bigger venues most of the time.

It would be nice if You Tube could give some of the more quality content producers like Noho a kind of partnership where ads can be hosted on your channel and vid pages and you could have a slice of the click through revenue which would start giving a return from You Tube for all your efforts.

I don't know the full economics of this because they have to finance their bandwith somehow, and I don't know how far simple click through can do that.

[scottz]

I like You Tube and appreciate them very much, but I to wonder how long it will take before they have to share revenue. Being on livevideo is going to be very liberating.

If we are all right about this genre, then we may be on top of sumpin that going to blastoff... BiG.

[noasinger]

I agree, this is already starting to blow up in Europe according to VanillaFlava, and of course short-format video has been HYYOOOGE in Japan for quite some time.

What with Redford throwing his support to the genre through the Sundance contest, I think this new microfiction medium is going to enhance everything. A lot of traditional shows -- many young adult shows on the N, a lot of the stuff HBO is producing, and most famously and recently, Battlestar Galactica -- have been experimenting a lot with producing short-form webmedia to good effect. The independents are going to kick everyone's ass, though.

I read something interesting this morning: when George Lucas was in film school, one assignment his class was given was to turn out one minute of film on the bulky animation cameras. All of his classmates just played around, but Lucas used that one allotted minute and the animation camera to create a tiny piece of microfiction. He won a lot of awards for the piece.

I do agree that YouTube will keep getting bigger, but it won't end up being where the most high-quality pieces go. It might remain the hotspot for up and coming funky amateurs.

[milowent]

scottz said:

If we are all right about this genre, then we may be on top of sumpin that going to blastoff... BiG.

i agree. it's not going to happen overnight, but something is happening. the current cross-pollinization of TV and internet is really different than what has come before (remember WebTV? ugh.) when there are people watching lg15 who don't even own a TV, that means something.