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Did Facebook ever consider building out their video product outside the newsfeed to keep people on the platform? YouTube seems like easy prey with FB's reach.
If you're asking if they'll make a social network with video... They already have. It's Facebook. And they've recently begun pushing live video a lot harder.
Did Facebook ever consider building out their video product outside the newsfeed to keep people on the platform? YouTube seems like easy prey with FB's reach.
They are/have. Several news sites are already embedding FB videos. If you're asking if they'll make a social network with video... They already have. It's Facebook. And they've recently begun pushing live video a lot harder.
Wonder how much they'll be using the technology and how. Will they try to do it like YouTube with trying to keep videos up, and having the revenue go to the copyright owner? Or maybe they won't do much. Comments seem to be divided.
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They are/have. Several news sites are already embedding FB videos. If you're asking if they'll make a social network with video... They already have. It's Facebook. And they've recently begun pushing live video a lot harder.
YouTube has great discoverability but no shareability with video. Facebook has the exact opposite. I wonder why they don't tackle this. IMHO videos in the newsfeed are not enough to attract content creators. There needs to be some kind of special section/UI.
That's not "shareable"? That seems like exactly what the shareable web ought to be!
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In a more real-world sense, I think you can look at the current state of law enforcement around drug laws in the US for a solid guide to the sort of relationships you're describing. Eventually, the police and the thieves become the same thing; the state thieves.
In the United States, more private property was lost last year to "civil asset forfeiture" than to conventional thieves. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
"...but this isn't exactly right: The FBI also tracks property losses from larceny and theft, in addition to plain ol' burglary. If you add up all the property stolen in 2014, from burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft and other means, you arrive at roughly $12.3 billion, according to the FBI. That's more than double the federal asset forfeiture haul."
Furthermore, a big chunk of that 2014 number was Bernie Madoff, per your atricle.
And finally, a big chunk actually goes back to the victims of the crimes ultimately linked to the forfeiture, again per your article.
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YouTube has great discoverability but no shareability with video. Facebook has the exact opposite. I wonder why they don't tackle this. IMHO videos in the newsfeed are not enough to attract content creators. There needs to be some kind of special section/UI.
Wait what? YouTube videos can be embedded, shareable, with time ranges and what not? with relatively short URLs by default? That's not "shareable"? That seems like exactly what the shareable web ought to be!
I don't disagree that youtube is just as easy to use, but that doesn't change what Facebook has that youtube doesn't.
That's a promising move by Facebook. Maybe they're finally going to start cracking down on the rampant freebooting that dominates their platform.