The future of YouTube is coming

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As other broadband media, video conferencing converges, expands its potentialities. The state of the art? Starting a video conference between some PC users and 3G cellphone callers.

“With RadVision’s PC to Mobile solution, operators can offer their 3G subscribers visual communications between their home or office PCs and their mobile devices,” claims the company (via endofwires). “This service helps operators increase airtime and revenues, and provide differentiated branded new services.”

Cool stuff. Now, mix this with one other trends: Citizen media and citizen photo press paparazzi. The NY Times said it today. Bild will extend its calls for photo live shot by amateur photograph and “join a growing number of European publications that are taking advantage of cellphone technology to reach new levels of reader interactivity and, some say, invasion of privacy.”

So that’s it. This is the future of YouTube. The equation in short: a Skype version for mobile phones to make unlimited free video calls, someone in the crowd with a 3G cellphone, and his pal with a video recorder system to get the hottest scoop in motion. Bright idea?

Aug 14, 2006 | By Nuno

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