If any company knows how to productize and market new technology, it’s got to be SONY. Today they announced a new VoIP based Video service not to dissimilar to what I wrote about yesterday which YAK is deploying.
Developed by GlowPoint, SonyIVE is featuring free, unlimited video and voice service for consumers worldwide.
Call 2006 the year of the “Face Off” so I say, “Game On!” with everyone from Vonage, AOL to EyeBall all coming on stream with various Video plays.
There are still some hurdles to video in my mind. The biggest is, do you want to have to look good all the time. Vanity still remains something important, especially to the female audience, so that’s a hurdle. Still I also see lots of opportunities around the video market and have been tempering my views as more consumer and enterprise friendly offers seem to be coming to market.