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first posted in this group.

There shouldn’t be ratings, cause the “Popular videos” area is allready all about some funny videos which many many people view and download.

The thing Google needs to implement is a way that you Digg videos so  that Google can make a personalized list of free and payable videos which Google has figured out is exactly of your taste.. Some system like http://last.fm and http://linkedfeed.com

Somehow people should be able to upload their videos to Google, they get processed also with voice-recognition so Google know all the words that are said in the video, so the video transcripts are searchable. And it should be so that people do not need to think about marketing and promoting their video! If it is a good video, then the public should be watching and downloading it automatically!

And I would like to offer all my videos for free, but it would be great if Google could enable people to donate money through Google Wallet to support me. Artists should have their artists page like a video blog, where all of their videos are displayed, be able to setup future projects pitches where any Google user can invest whatever the amount they want and they become thus micro-investor in the artists future
production. Something like 50/50 of the revenue of the completed production would go to the artist and to all the micro-investors. Where the micro-investors though get a smaller and smaller share of the revenue the more people download it, pay for it and donate for it later.

Just like the “my starred topics” of Google groups (this place here where we are debating). I don’t think there will be ratings of 1-10 like imdb nor 1-5 or anything like that. There will be your starred videos and your unstared videos.

Let’s for example say there is video A B C D E F

you watch and you put a star next to video A B C

I watch and put a star next to B C D

then Google will tell you “You should probably check out video D” and it will tell me “You should probably check out video A”..

This is basic quality/recommendation personalized system. I think Google will go for something like that, though there will always be somekind of “Popular” listing also, like simply taking the globally most popular or most starred videos.

I think when this quality/recommendations system will be integrated, it might be that we will want to sit for hours and we will keep discovering more and more shows that fit exactly our taste.. It will be fascinating.

The place for comments will be the video blogs. Google will probably combine their blogger system with Google Video system. So you will very simply automatically have a blog, and you can, as the content provider, choose if you want comments enabled or not, and you might even have some comments moderations tools if you want..

For donations to be a successfull model, I think it is important that the content provider has to accept to show publicly exactly how much donations has been received yet compared to how many people have downloaded the video. So that an artist who makes alot of quality content and does not reveice donations, that the visitor will think “ah, that’s unfair, I want to support this artist”. Or the opposite could work also “ah, this video is not worth that much donations, I’ll skip doing as so many others have allready done, unless I see this artist can really produce more and better content”.

It will be a big thing with users subscribing to artists video RSS feeds. So everytime you see some video you really like you can stay in touch with the source. Firstly by easilly being able to send a message to the artist for example “hey I really like your video” to the more dedicated approach of going to ones Gbuy account and spending a dollar or two on eigther donating or on investing in a specific project that the artist has listed on his page.

You can limit abuse on investors money being used for other purpose is that the artist can be held accounted for. An artist has built up his fanbase of trusted micro-investors. By firstly releasing cheaply produced content and steadilly making better and better content, to the point where there are enough investors giving a dollar each to a certain project so the artist has reached the specific goal of for example 1000€ or something like that, that would be the cost to for example pay a couple of actors and getting some lighting and sound equipment for a few days. And just like small stocks on the stock market, they have to prove with results that they can make money, the artist will have to prove that he can continue making quality content and that more and more people download his videos.