The recent launch of SciVee.tv is a good example of how the online video space will continue to fragment and go niche.
The new video, social networking site was launched by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the Public Library of Science and the National Science Foundation. Basically it's a video sharing site for scientific research papers.
According to the site, the news service "allows scientists to communicate their work as a multimedia presentation incorporated with the content of their published article. Other scientists can freely view uploaded presentations and engage in virtual discussions with the author and other viewers. SciVee also facilitates the creation of communities around specific articles and keywords. Use this medium to meet peers and future collaborators that share your particular research interests."
This should be a popular and useful website. In the particular field of science research and papers, there is a built-in, existing audience that communicates with one another all the time. Offering this site should make it faster and easier for interested people to accomplish that task, while discovering potential interesting work they may not have otherwise known about.
While this site is a combination of audio, video and social networking, it is a look at how we can tap into existing networks of people and target their existing interests and provide communication platforms for them to connect on a wider basis.
This will be a simple and powerful business model that will be successful for a long time online. Building networks around people of similar interests is only just beginning, there's a long way to go before we reach a saturation point.
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