Will Every Website Become a TV Station?

Posted on August 22, 2005

Video blogs are just starting to become popular. Will video someday reach the point where it is seen on every webpage? Brad Inman, the founder and publisher of Inman News, thinks so and recently said so at a Real Estate Connect conference according to E-Media Tidbits.

"Let me just explain it this way: Every webpage will become a television station," he said. "Think of the webpage as a video magazine. ... In a few years, if people open the page and see words and data, they might change the channel on you."

Inman's company has also created InmanStories.com, which creates videos that could be used in real estate to sell luxury homes. Inman also has a blog.

While it seems highly likely that the Internet will be full of more and more video as time passes it also seems highly unlikely that text and data will vanish. Newspapers were still read after television was commonplace. And in many cases information can be absorbed more easily and quickly when it takes the form of the written (or digital) word.