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#72Maybe things aren't as bad as I imagine them to be, but my immediate reaction to this was that now instead of working we are all going to be required to spend time watching "enterprise" videos - as if countless hours being wasted in senseless meetings watching someone's latest PowerPoint creation is not enough. Way to go, coders, way to go...
If anything, this should cut down on time for meetings if used properly. Plus there's no 2x speed button when you're meeting up in meatspace.
Prediction: The speedup buttons will be globally configurable and will be promptly disabled by each company.
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#73Was anybody else a bit confused by how the page says "The content you want, and nothing else - Create a secure, encrypted video site with no ads and no unrelated videos to distract people—and no headaches for your IT department." and right next to it they show a screenshot of a page with "Trending Videos" and "Popular Channels"? Isn't that pretty much the opposite of what they should be showing there?
I think they are demonstrating discovery within-company. That feature will be huge. It potentially eliminates meetings that would have had to occur "between silos" - which are extremely difficult meetings to begin with. If somebody from team A (on campus 1) can watch a video from team C (on campus 3) without needing their team leaders to coordinate a meeting, this will be extremely valuable to businesses. But why wou…
Then managers tell their employees to watch a video to influence the trending status and it just becomes another internal propaganda tool. Seen it with internal like buttons and comment sections time and time again.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, corporate training videos. It's what Netlflix in another tab was invented for.
These are mostly CYA for the company, they don't really care if you don't, they just want to show compliance when something goes wrong...
You'd be surprised. The CYA stuff is what you are forced to see, but there are tons and tons of videos (on this or that esoteric platform) that almost nobody will ever watch, but provide an ego-stroke (and sometimes a job justification) for this or that middle manager.
Enterprise video is always, always made for the benefit of the broadcaster (i.e. management), never for actual workers. Which is why no-one (except management) cares about enterprise video, it's possibly the worst tool for internal training or knowledge sharing.
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#75This is great for organizations that are already using office 365. We have been recording lots of presentations, and this is a prefect place to put them.
If there are any Stream folks reading this my one request is an easy way to attach a slide deck to the videos. The video description is an okay place, but it would be even better if there was deeper integration. Like slides on one side of the screen.
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#76very cool. You have to wonder how long it will be free, and what AI/ML is pulling from all that data.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really enterprise unless it's hooked into a corporate authentication system with policy controls and management capabilities. I'm puzzled why this isn't attached to Office365 for those reasons. The marketing page for it says that it's for companies, but the whole thing makes my inner MS admin twitch: self-sign up with no mention of SSO, docs are pitched as if it's a consumer product with no administrative fe…
Good points. I wonder about that as well (although as a user I hate all that stuff tied into Office365).
@GFischer, it's going to be available outside and with Office 365
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#78This is going to be huge. 10 years ago, I would never have thought that technology alone sufficiently differentiated YouTube from "long tail" offerings like Vevo or Twitch. It turns out you can have multiple, multiple-billion-dollar businesses using essentially the same platform. The use cases inherent to various content niches inform new user interfaces and modes of interacting with the underlying video data. Enterp…
In other words, the only real advantage Microsoft has is in enterprise channel sales
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are mostly CYA for the company, they don't really care if you don't, they just want to show compliance when something goes wrong...
You'd be surprised. The CYA stuff is what you are forced to see, but there are tons and tons of videos (on this or that esoteric platform) that almost nobody will ever watch, but provide an ego-stroke (and sometimes a job justification) for this or that middle manager. Enterprise video is always, always made for the benefit of the broadcaster (i.e. management), never for actual workers. Which is why no-one (except ma…
At a lot of workplaces, there are internal conferences and seminars about all sorts of things. Usually they'll tap on a member of a particular team, and have them give a presentation. Due to the fact that it's about internal code, it won't be applicable to host it on Youtube publicly, so it can just end up being dumped into the company storage servers somewhere.
This would be a good use case: sharing video about company-private materials.
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#80This is going to be huge. 10 years ago, I would never have thought that technology alone sufficiently differentiated YouTube from "long tail" offerings like Vevo or Twitch. It turns out you can have multiple, multiple-billion-dollar businesses using essentially the same platform. The use cases inherent to various content niches inform new user interfaces and modes of interacting with the underlying video data. Enterp…
Doesn't Adobe Connect already cover this space pretty well? Enterprises have been using that for both live and recorded video and webinars for years.