Google will sell video online
According to Digg, “Tomorrow, Friday Jan 6, Google Inc. will announce that it will let consumers buy video over the Internet from CBS, the NBA and other providers, becoming the latest company to explore the new method of distributing TV content.” What no one seems to get is that we’ve already had the first hit television program on the ‘net. The problem is that no one thinks to identify it as a tv show. Remember JibJab? The big question is when we’ll have the first hit online series.
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