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Storage is becoming a commodity, online and offline. Google now offers to host videos (BBC), but its constantly expanding GMail storage is part of the same trend.
Google is aiming to be everyone's storehouse of data and knowledge. Who'll own it, or at least control it, over the long term? Not a trivial question.
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OurMedia.org and the Internet Archive are attempting to do the same thing. At some level, I feel like where the data is stored is not as important as who controls the metadata -- provided that the "storage centers" allow deep linking and unlimited sharing. The context is more important than where the content lives. OurMedia makes the bold claim of providing free storage and bandwidth for life, which seems outlandish until you realize that the Archive has been doing this for years. I think its approach and goals are more transparent than Google's.
Posted by: Dan Pacheco | April 05, 2005 at 03:16 PM
www.freevideoblog.com, unlimited uploads and downloads for free. No need to install software and you can actually watch the vids! Not sure what the big deal is about Google.
Posted by: Chris Jones | April 29, 2005 at 08:18 PM