Using Streaming-Video Content to Collaborate
YouTube is one of the Web 2.0 success stories. Each year, users upload hundreds of millions of videos, on a wide variety of content, to YouTube. Many companies use YouTube to market their products and services and even to deploy corporate training. YouTube supports video access from all web browsers and most handheld devices. Users are free to determine when and from where they retrieve the video content. More important, users can easily update their own videos to the YouTube cloud-based storage and then share the videos with other users.
Cloud-Based TV Content
Over the past few years, many households have gotten rid of their land-based phone lines in lieu of cellular phones. Recently, a similar phenomenon is taking place. People are getting rid of television cable boxes and using cloud-based movie downloads and streaming content instead. In the near future, companies may also leverage streaming content to provide their own messaging, marketing, and training.