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YouTube has announced that it will be offering nearly all it’s videos for viewing on 3G “smart” phones. They are also releasing an application that allows users to upload videos from their handsets. Ah, the slumbering giant wakes! With the line between the Internet and various mobile technologies melting away, YouTube apparently is trying to cast in it’s lot with the new wave of mobile services. I can’t help but feel that this move is a little too little, a little too late.

Ok, YouTube occupies the enviable position as THE goto place for web video, and opening up access to their millions of videos to 100 million (and growing) mobile users is a logical next step, but in light of what some smaller, adroit companies are doing, I don’t think this incremental move will mean much. And frankly, the mobile technology landscape is already leaps and bounds beyond simple uploading of a video from your handset. The only breakthrough here is that you can finally do it to your YouTube profile.

Now, I apologize for the unabashed company plug, but Next2Friends allows you to shoot and upload and broadcast video from a mobile device ALL AT THE SAME TIME! We’re talking a level of real-time dynamicism that far out paces the likes of YouTube’s static new service. And you will soon be able to not only shoot and store your videos to your profile, but edit your videos online as well.

But, perhaps I should be glad to see all of our thinking at Next2Friends slowly vindicated by the industry. I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or something like that. I just can’t help but think that despite their efforts to be relevant in the new tech landscape, their model is outdated. But I guess we’ll just stay quiet on that one, we wouldn’t want to wake the giant!

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Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans AT Next2Friends.com