A very interesting speculative post from Garett Rogers on ZDNet’s blog imagines, and tends to prove, that Google is already coming on your local machine: he discovers that Google’s ‘Docs & spreadsheet‘ the word processor and spreadsheet integrated software that Google launched 2 days ago, could run on your machine instead of being purely online.
Read the post from Roger and discover more here.
The rumour has been confirmed! As you probably know, a few hours ago Google bought YouTube. Not so surprising but now it’s done.
One interesting fact: because the deal has been done all stock and because the market appreciated this move, Google… made more than $400 million on the deal! Indeed, it cost $1.65 billion in stock to Google to aquire YouTube.com but at the same time its capitalization skyrocketed by more than $2 billion, as Forbes explains.
In this article, Rachel Rosmarin offers a review of YouTube american competitors (as usual, the French Dailymotion isn’t mentionned :-(…). Company names you should remember since some would probably be hot soon… As everybody knows, there are too big challenges for video portals today: first, pull cash from their audience, second, deal with the copyrights issue. Though each of them hasn’t provided an answer to the second issue, it seems VideoEgg (financed by Starbucks) could have found the way to run the cash machine… Let the future tells us if this business model is the business model…
