VideoEgg Hatches, Small Publishers Unite
PC World’s Harry McCracken shares news today of a new partnership between Six Apart and VideoEgg, a new hosted service for online videos that will enable TypePad customers to *easily* videocast content via their blogs.
Coincidentally, this announcement comes on the heals of news that Odeo is now privately beta testing a new browser-based audio creation service for podcasters. Brian Oberkirch has the details (and some screen shots too).
And, of course, there’s the new Apple iPod that can easily download and playback the content created by these two services.
There’s a trend here: The barrier to entry for creating and consuming user generated content is lowering every day. As a result, small publishers are wielding an increasing amount of power and influence. There’s a warning here too: Networked conversations are growing faster and louder than anyone expected. Can corporate America really tune in and successfully keep pace?
