A High-Def 'Video Twitter'

Washington — One of the more interesting ideas brought up on the final panel at SCTE’s Conference on Emerging Technologies today was “video Twitter.”

As described by Charter VP of IP engineering and support Matt Bell, this would be a service to let subscribers share HD video in a “microblogging” style, a la Twitter.

“The ‘video Twitter’ concept of us generating video on the fly, from anywhere, and appearing in this cloud is a technology I’m keeping my eye on,” said Bell.

Some other services that have also been dubbed “video Twitter,” such as Gawkk, which is geared around Web-based video rather than user-generated video (see the LA Times’ story on the startup).

Interestingly, the top link on Gawkk today is to Stephen Colbert’s interview with Twitter founder Biz Stone, who called it “the messaging system we didn’t know we needed until we had it.”

Colbert compared Twitter — which apparently doesn’t generate any revenue to speak of today — to the infamous dot-com flameout Pets.com and cracked: “I assume that ‘Biz’ in Biz Stone doesn’t stand for ‘business model.’”