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Is Facebook Video Chat the Future of Social Media? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Monday, January 18, 2010

Video wants to be social, my colleagues at GigaOM have said. I’m more interested in the reverse.

Video wants to be social, my colleagues at GigaOM have said. While I have my own misgivings about that idea, I’m more interested in the reverse: “Does social media want to be video?” Everywhere you look, social media is increasingly becoming video. Last fall, in the space of only a month, Facebook went from being the 10th most popular site for viewing video to being third – behind only YouTube and Hulu. And while Hulu had [...]

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