July 7, 2009
Video is the killer app. It isn’t just 90 percent of the load on the network or video, it’s gonna be how you do business.
— Cisco CEO John Chambers
But before jumping this bandwagon, we should make sure that we have:
- video indexing: videos must become searchable and bookmarkable, not only in terms of video frames, but also quotes, faces, etc
- automatic transcription: video consumption is not at its best yet (see boxee approach).
- video accessibility: the internet must be the place for everyone and I mean that. Radio and TV have not been able to solve the accessibility problem, why not trying to make sure the internet is addressing it [1].
Disclaimer: I confess that I am guilty in this regard as many of the sites I’ve built are not accessible friendly.
