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One of the founders of MySpace is aiming to take on YouTube with the launch of LiveVideo.com. Brad Greenspan's latest creation is billed as an "advanced on-demand interactive broadcasting platform providing instant global reach and messaging to any user with a webcam". Users can create and broadcast live content alone, or in conjunction with friends, colleagues or newly acquainted users, with LiveVideo.com's LiveShow platform. LiveShow boasts interactive features such as LiveTextChat, LiveCoHost and LivePolls to encourage social interaction with a real-time community. The platform also allows advanced video users to broadcast on their channel with multiple cameras to create broadcast-quality shows. "Move over MySpace, YouTube and other similar sites," the company said in a statement.
Outlook Bleak for Joshua Trees
One of the questions I guess we talk about, at least internally, on an informal basis, is 'What do we have here without Joshua trees?'" says Joe Zarki, a longtime ranger. Joshua trees are a type of yucca that grow 30 feet or taller. The ends of their short branches are covered with clusters of green leaves with spiny tips. An early explorer named John Freemont called it the "most repulsive plant in the vegetable kingdom," Zarki says. "People nowadays, I think, look at it and see this really distinctive, sort of whimsical plant," Zarki says. "I like them. It's a plant with character." Jim Cornett, an independent ecologist who has been studying Joshua trees for almost 20 years, doesn't buy Ken Cole's grim prediction about the trees disappearing from the park.
Dangerous Places
The Long Tail also sometimes doesn't work in its home category: the information-technology industries. The key issue is the question of standardization. Sometimes consumers want a diverse set of product offerings. But sometimes they prefer a standard or compatible product. Most of Anderson's examples are content firms, where product diversity is almost always a good thing. But in the information-transport industry, standardization is usually more important. Do people want 10 different types of (incompatible) Internet connections? Or just the fastest one they can get? How about 30 types of (incompatible) Ethernet cables? What the book doesn't get at is the relationship between these standards-driven industries where the Long Tail doesn't matter, and the content industries where it does.
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