Yahoo CEO Terry Semel said he has plans to expand user-created video sharing throughout the site. The details are a little unclear since Yahoo already has Video.Yahoo.com and You Witness News, but Semel offers a little insight:
“I don’t see the future of user-generated content as just clips. There are opportunities to do other things than a version of America’s Funniest Home Videos. I also see user-generated content becoming more targeted. It will definitely get better in terms of tapping people’s creativity.
People keep pitching online video as if they were pitching TV shows. That’s really what they were thinking: TV, not online, not interactive. This is not TV and you can’t think that way. It has to fit and use all the capabilities of the medium.”
Semel nearly quoted the Lost Remote mantra, “the web is not TV.”