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It's interesting to see Facebook taking means to compete against Youtube. The reason why it is beneficial for users to upload media on a 3rd party server, is so that they can share their media while not consuming their own resources. So when the article mentions users will upload their own media on their own websites, I see a few problems with this:

1. Not everyone is savvy.
2. The user will then have to pay for their own resources.
3. How will they share their media?

We have - with success - uploaded videos on facebook. They have often been ranked very well on google. We use the videos to get more visitors to our main website.

You also have a problem where users are losing their personal photos, videos and commentary to these sites. These sites now own this media and have the power over your media. Its really REALLY bad for the destiny of "user data" long term.

I actually have not seen any solution from either Google or Yahoo or Flickr either. Most are now having copyright infringement problems because of this, and now capping out on advertising growth and income dollars. Facebook has yet to show even a profit!!! Wow...so much for social media.

Social media will fail long term as a viable solution online for anything beyond popularity contests and an alternate form of communication between people globally.

It does not solve the central problem which is that if we are now uploading videos and our personal photos to tehse services, losing control over that media. As these types of sites multiple and compete for eyeballs, users will continue to store their personal video and data across thousands of servers and sites, fracturing even more their ability to manage their media online.

Just think about all your photos and videos online you have posted the last 5 years? Where are they all...do you know? No one knows....so you have lost your own media! The only solution is for a new Web 3.0 to evolve that centralizes user data behind personal domains every user owns.

If we could encourage people to dump Facebook and Google and store media in their own websites (ie buy their own domains and host their video on their own websites), we could show people that they can share and store their video and personal files behind a private domain they own and manage the rest of their lives.

When you manage your media like this, you end up collecting gigabytes of video and images that represent your entire life, on one site and server, and have the ability to archive, distribute, and control that media. As long as social sites like Facebook exist, we are avoiding the problem. Bigger video file support doesnt improve that problem, Im sorry to say. - Stormy