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The Internet Is Global... Unless You're Watching BlogTV
from the sorry,-not-for-you dept
One of the tenets of the internet age is that any company is automatically an international company, just by the nature of being online. You can no longer just expect to launch a service in one country and keep everyone else out, so it's common for new startups to embrace a more global viewpoint right from the start. Apparently that's not true of all companies. There's a startup called BlogTV that is apparently offering video streaming services so people can create their own video shows (yes, they have a ton of competition). However, the company behind the technology is apparently licensing it on a country by country basis -- so folks in, say, Canada, who want to see what all the fuss is about after a discussion about the service on US blogs are discovering that they simply can't access the same site. If they try to go to the main .com site, they're automatically redirected to a .ca version, with no way to see the same content that American users can see. The same is true for those of us in the US who want to see any of the Canadian content. The company claims that the artificial barriers help create more local communities, but it seems like it really is only going to push people to go to other solutions that don't put up these unnecessary restrictions.
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The YouTube model of pushing localized versions which promote local content but don't limit you to it, is clearly better.
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Interesting...
Very interesting...
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Started in Canada
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Great for Content Providers
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Hah! Good luck...
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Re: Great for Content Providers
Also, why isn't Jason Jenkins considered a lowlife spammer and why hasn't that link been removed as spam?
If these scumbag idiots like this idea, it's got to be a real loser.
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Re: Hah! Good luck...
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Reminds me of Google and their underlings
Fine. Now I want to blog about stuff in Switzerland, and I use Blogger. I'm thrown into the German language again. But this time there's no (obvious) way to switch languages. My google account is set to English, everything in my setup for Blogger says English, but I'm still getting German. On my last day of WiFi access I get an answer (not from Google!) on what to change to get back to English. Which did work.
Next time, I'm setting up my home computer as a proxy so I can avoid this crap over IP addresses.
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Re: Started in Canada
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thx
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Re: Hah! Good Luck...
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