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Is Justin.tv really just a live twitter? And my other thoughts...
Alrighty, so everyone and their mother have covered Justin.tv. My friend Jeremiah did a video interview with Justin and has about 40 facts that people may not know about Justin. SFGate also has an extensive piece about Justin.tv. Josh at Cnet has a writeup as well. So here are some of my thoughts and comments.
1. Who the F cares?
People are hooked on this now... but will they in a month, in a year? I doubt it. I also doubt that Justin can do it for a year or more. Naturally since he is in San Fran, he will get invited to every party, be on every video show, etc. But once it's done once, will it keep up? I question the longevity. But Justin will be a nice rich Yale graduate before it's all done. Can't fault him for that.
2. Is it really a live twitter?
So we know that twitter allows us to post when we poop, post when we date, post our cat photo. Justin.tv is a live version of this. Why read that you just took out the trash, when you can watch it!
3. This is like a live Big Brother
Big Brother's tv show (seen in many countries) is very addicting. Why? Because people want to see the fights, the drama. Will Justin.tv be able to provide that "drama" in some fashion? Seeing Justin eat his cheerios or put on his underoos won't keep the audience coming back over and over. Now give me a fight between Aisylene and Imogen and I will watch all day!
4. Archive
This show needs an archive. In say thirty-minute segments. This is a Tivo generation. We need to be able to rewind, fast forward, pause Justin's life. Oh yea, and add some Viddler timed tagging/commenting love.
Final Summary
In the end, it's good fun. It's like the milliondollarhomepage, it will work once. Actually it will probably work once for a woman as well. But that's it. If I strap a camera to my head, no one will watch.
Are you watching? If so, why?
It will be interesting to see how fast he gets on Leno/Letterman.
Next week? Jay Leno? Letterman the night after? What are your thoughts?
Rex
I actually check it a couple of times a day..Will I still be interested in a couple of weeks or months? I don't know.
But I do give Justin a heck of a lot of credit for acting on an idea that most people would discard as ridiculous.
I agree. I don't know if it would work for anyone else but him. But its a great idea nonetheless.
So let me get this straight... nobody will care in a few months, but you think there should be an archive?
It would be nice to have an archive so that if you're tuning in live while something interesting happens you can go back to it and show your friends later. But it'd be a pain in the behind for someone to have to sit around and label the archive to make it searchable.
I was thinking to myself that the initial buzz for Justin.TV would fade out, but it's his business model that makes it so interesting. We can watch how a startup gets on its legs, as it's happening.
Once he sets other people up as "lifecasters", it will still be interesting to watch his feed because he was the first one to do it.
If you had a video camera strapped to your head Allen, I'd probably watch it.
If he's streaming 24/7 using a Sprint wireless card, they'll cut him off at some point soon. The place I work, we're going to buy a lot of the same cards Justin uses, and one of the questions we asked the account manager when they came out was, "do you have the same bandwidth limitations as Verizon." Short answer no, long answer yes. If they see you consistently streaming for periods of time, say five days in a row of non-stop usage of video streaming to the Sprint card, they'll cut it off. So maybe we'll see him cutoff soon.
I think this is a little different than the million dollar in that you have more range for the dynamic content. In essence, from a production point of view, justin.tv seems like a lonelygirl15 with a different visual perspective, so if someone else were to take the same presentation style and be an entertaining character on their own right (or if they were to put themselves in entertaining situations), I could see people watching it.
Really bad article. Not like anyone hasn't thought these things...by themselves...already.
Good try. Nice Viddler name-drop.
I think many times we have all thought of something that a person writes about, but it provides another viewpoint perhaps. As for Viddler, who else does the timed tagging/commenting?
Tuned in once for about 5 minutes. Boring. Him in a car in traffic in the passenger seat answering calls from people watching him. Boring. Boring Boring Boring. The ultimate cure for insomnia.