It was less than two years since the News Corporation took over MySpace and they had decided to take this social networking site on a new path. The introduction of MySpace TV marked as the new focus area that MySpace is putting their internal resources in. Currently, most of the cyberpundits are now discussing the possibilities of this MySpace TV in challenging the leadership position of YouTube. It seems that video-sharing industry on the Web is still rapidly expanding and far from saturation. However, I don’t see this bold action by MySpace will cost them anything. Instead of releasing more advancing features to the MySpace social networking site, MySpace had shifted the company’s strategic focus, did this implied the new direction, its future prospect is even bigger than the existing social networking industry.

MySpace definitely saw the bigger picture of video-sharing industry. According to the co-founder and president of MySpace, Tom Anderson, “When you see us going from 332 million to 648 million videos per month you know something big is happening. We’re going to be rolling out innovative video products and features in the coming months to further empower our users.”

Currently, MySpace TV was launched in two different URL, i.e. MySpaceTV.com or in a subdomain that named as vids.myspace.com due to the fact that users that did not owned MySpace account could still access to this site. I personally feel that if MySpace can make it in the social network, why not a MySpace TV.

For those who has not yet watch this video, I have embedded in the below. It was a creative video clip, viewed more than 300,000 since it was first uploaded to YouTube two days ago. First phrase of this clip was, “One day, your computer will be a big XXX table.”

Enjoy.

Yesterday I came across a blog entry that posted by the co-founder of YouTube, frankly, I like the line that he made, “We’ll continue our focus on delivering a great user experience.” And today YouTube Mobile is goes live. Enter this site, you’ll receive a warning message on the landing page as follow, i.e. Information: YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider to avoid additional charges. Click the “continue” link would bring you to the main site of this YouTube Mobile.

Test it yourself and enjoy the video clips on your mobile device.

Just came across a funny video clip on YouTube. I wondered Apple always has the capabilities to come out a better idea in introducing their products or their key people. Below is the embedded video clip.

Just came across a source (in Mandarin) in China, YouTube will soon to launch a Chinese Big5 version for the Taiwan people. I think one of the key decisions of this incoming roll-out is due to the co-founder, Steve Chen was born in Taiwan. If YouTube successfully released its Taiwan version, soon we will expecting them to launched a China version for the Chinese people there.

I really enjoyed watching the videos on Funny or Die.com. Some people believed it will be the YouTube for the year of 2007. Funny or Die is a new comedy video sharing Web 2.0 site that started by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, i.e. Gary Sanchez Productions (MySpace). When you visit this site, you’ll find that the most popular video appeared is the video that called ‘the LANDLORD,’ starring by the founders and McKay’s two-year-old daughter Pearl acting as a landlord. You hardly heard a two-year-old girl shouting angrily with the phrase, “You pay… now, b*tch.” In matter of fact, this videos has been viewed by people with more than 13,949,538 on the Funny or Die’s landing page (at the time of writing), and it’s going to notch up a new record soon in the history of short and funny clip. Like YouTube, they having the seed funding from a Sequoia Capital’s Mark D. Kvamme. This site also allowed people uploading the comedy videos, comment on the videos that they watched, embed their favorite videos onto their blogs, if they want to, and etc.

One of the special design of Funny or Die is the voting system for the videos. When a video found to be “too few viewers”, it will be banished from the main site and will goes to “the crypt.” Besides, they also developed a funny system whereby the funny videos voted by users with 4.5 points can called itself “immortal.” As stated by Funny or Die, it’s that easy… you decide.

Currently, I saw the product positioning of this site, i.e. target mainly at the funny videos uploading from the users. They tend to attract the original contents and trying to meet the needs of people nowadays that favor of the funny, short, originally and genuinely clips. However, they’re not monetize from the huge traffic they got right now. No Google Adsense advertisements or any sponsor are found on their Web pages. No doubt the founders of this site have a flair of marketing; what should be done in order to attract the Web traffic, and they have captured the imagination of what a success video Web site should look like in the Web 2.0 era. A big question for all these video sharing sites, such as YouTube, Veoh, and the above mentioned Funny or Die, albeit that I admitted here I enjoyed visiting these sites: Is there any substance found after watching these videos? Or the sizzle is too loud that make people forget about the substance of a video that served as a hint to show people a specific message? Unfortunately, we will see a lot of new startups with the same technologies with no intention to revolutionize or create a new demand, but go with the stream.

YouTube has unveiled its first batch of video award winners. OK Go, Smosh, the wine kone, digital film maker, Terra Naomi, Peace on Earth 123, Mad yeti 47 were among the seven winners in the YouTube site’s inaugural awards. Most of the videos created by the award winners are well-designed. The establishment of this award would have significant implications for the YouTube users. It will serve as an Oscar-Like award among the YouTube environment and help in create a true marketplace for YouTube users in exchanging their own creative videos.

“2006 was a groundbreaking year for YouTube, user-generated content, and entertaining online videos. With this in mind, we established the YouTube Video awards to recognize the ingenuity and achievements of our community. These individuals put the first stitches in the fabric of the YouTube community. Instead of seeing a way to share videos they saw an opportunity for worldwide visibility and through their success have changed the landscape of how a ‘star’ is defined.” Said Jamie Byrne, head of product marketing for YouTube, according to this press release.

Viacom sues Google’s YouTube for $1 billion, but the above clip is the funny one, or otherwise, the Daily Show interpreted by Demetri Martin.

Update: Aha, the above clip is no longer available. Below the same clip that I found on another site, i.e. Comedy Central. Meanwhile, Comedy Central is owned by Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of MTV Networks, which is a division of Viacom, as mentioned in this post. Note that this clip will expire on April 22.