Youtube dreaming of a mobile service

Link: YouTube hopes to be on mobile devices in 2007 – USATODAY.com

YouTube, the popular online video sharing site, said Wednesday it hopes to launch a service for wireless devices within a year.
Chad Hurley, YouTube chief executive and co-founder, told an advertising conference that offering video services on mobile phones was a key opportunity for the company.

“Within the next year we hope to have something on a mobile device, it’s going to be a huge market, especially for the video mind-set we’re dealing with, it’s a natural transition,” said Hurley.

They’ve been singularly USELESS with mobile. Totally 100% useless.

I can’t tell you how annoyed I was to find that their email-to-youtube service was just pants. Total rubbish. Never worked ONCE. And I’m a technical geek. I tried absolutely everything to get it to work….

… then I found Nakama.ca — essentially, Youtube for mobile. Do take a look if you haven’t seen it already. Youtube could learn a lot from Nakama. True mobile integration. Built for mobile browsers. Wicked.

So, I look forward to seeing what Youtube dream up — I hope it’s a billion times better than their existing facilities.

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  • http://www.ShopQwik.com mark

    If I were them I’d look to buy someone like buy someone like Shozu and build video in to the service…..

    Seems like a perfect fit to me

  • http://www.ShopQwik.com mark

    Actually video is already working in Shozu, so its even a better fit….

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