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This flash video had an impact on me and got me thinking about how Google, Amazon and Microsoft will impact the internet and the media over the next 10 years. This video reaffirms an earlier post made on this weblog that we are coming into a time when we will see a growing digital media battle between everyday people and copyright, patent holders of all kinds. I think this war over the next 20 years will divide this world like never before. We will also see more and more individuals like you and me around the world become online media publishers in some way or another. I also think that just about every company will become some sort of media publishing company as a necessary way of marketing and building sales. This trend is what will ultimately make it more difficult for many current major media companies to thrive over the next 10 years. While at the same time I think the media companies that really innovate to keep in touch with an audience will thrive.

Might I say that it got me thinking plenty hard about how all the online companies are mining all sorts of online and database data. While timing of the predicted events in this video are dubious and unreliable. The elements of the videos seem to follow logical evolutionary progression of some plausible mergers and events. The one that surprised me was the prediction that Google would buy or merge with TVIO. Does this mean that Google should be a major player in digital media? I certainly think it could be if they are able to completely index audio, video and virtual world content. This would be a smart play if you start thinking about how IPTV will change the media landscape.

The video brought more questions to the table then it really answered.

The other hard to believe element in this video was about the name of the new online monster “EPIC” that puts all the old media out of business and aggregates all the information on the Internet. The ironic twist to this story line is that EPIC is currently the name of Electronic Privacy Information Center. I think EPIC would clash with EPIC. That is a true clash of ideology.

Watch and feel your own light bulb turn on.

Important terms in the video are Googlezon, MSN Newsbotster and EPIC.