Oct 5, 2007
video the ‘new fibre’
On the Nicholas Carr blog ‘rough type’, the article ‘Is video the new fiber?’. He wrote the book, ‘Does it Matter: Information Technology and the corrosion of the competitive advantage.’ (2004)
Today, video may be emerging as the new stress point – the new fiber. Running a big on-line video business is anything but inexpensive. Storage and bandwidth may be relatively cheap, but if you consume enough of them, as video businesses do, they start to get very expensive. Yet we’re now seeing all sorts of companies make those investments, from deep-pocketed big guys like Google and Microsoft and Apple to not-quite-so-deep-pocketed big guys like Amazon to startups like YouTube, Grouper, Motionbox and their brethren.