Wow, It's Google Idol!

I have been doing a lot of research about video on the Internet and how video bloggers can benefit from various storage solutions and how Google Video and YouTube.com are changing how video is viewed and shared on the Internet.   Thus, I found this little gem that is getting some press here and there.  Google Idol is the "no line up" way of getting to show off your "lip sync talent".  Some of the performances are quite hilarious to watch.  I would check it out. 

Some of these newer uses of older technologies (can we chant "mashup"?) and newer web magic are providing people with new ways to express their creativity and share it with others.  What normally may have been a home made video sitting around and collecting dust in someone's basement are now "direct-to-net" video releases.  Of course, there is the question of copyright.  I think Google Idol may get into some hot water over the songs they have used (although, it is the people making the videos that might be on the hook for that).

Check it out, Google Idol.  The newest way to show off and try to get famous.

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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What else do I do? I talk out loud, record it, and post it on line. I chatter about all kinds of things. Some of the things are nerdy, some professional, and some of them are very much NSFW. Why? Because do them for myself and my non-work life. You can be the judge.