social computing

Video – more than any other medium, video is the poster child for a world of rapid change powered by social computing that reaches virtually every realm of human life from business to art to family to… you name it.

And, you know what, we will each of us have access to as much as we could ever want, on every subject and by every kind of person, all free, and we will be able to view it, organize it, and create more of it – all when and how we want.

I’m sitting at a session on the future of video at this year’s Supernova conference, and this is more or less the message I’m hearing. I believe it, too.

User created video is to the 21st century what snapshot photography was to the 20th. It’s that simple, really.

Hence, if you want to think about innovation, change, Web 2.0, and even Enterprise 2.0 – all you really have to look at is video.

The question for the panel is — how do people navigate this world of new video?

Howard Greenstein is moderating the panel, which includes Scott Rosner, Lee Berke, Tim Tuttle, and Robert Scoble. I’ll link to these folks later when I have a minute to find the links.

Justin of justin.tv is here, of course. And Heather Gold too, vlogging the session.

Prompted by moi, Bob Scoble discusses the way video has enabled him to create his enterprise — the meme is, in my words, the individual as enterprise.

Metadata is raised as an issue, but why is this a long-term issue I wonder?

Scoble doubts that walled gardens of video, however distributed, will work — “I bet on the web.” Of course, youtube is his main example, and also Kyte, which I don’t know (apparently founded by the same Skype people who created joost.

A main issue for the panelists and audience alike seems to be how the Viacom/Google lawsuit will affect the future of video. The consensus seems to be that if Viacom wins, it will be hurt by the victory which will reinforce its desire to stay inside its walled garden.