LiveVideo aims to marry social networking with youtube-style video

Brad Greenspan, one of the minds behind MySpace, has just thrown his hat into a new arena with a site called LiveVideo.com.

What’s the big idea?

From poking around the vnunet post about the launch as well as the actual site itself, it looks like the aim is to bring a more robust social network feel and a “live” interactive experience to the YouTube ethos.

I’m always interested in what kinds of ways people are interacting with computers and the internet. As bandwidth and processor power continues to boom, we’re seeing changes in the way we communicate online: first there was e-mail (which is now simultaneously hopeless and indispensable), then ICQ, then AIM, GTalk, then Skype, now video chat and social networks.

The signup process is pretty simple, and I think the options for “Account Type” are interesting (screencap’d above). I haven’t picked anything yet (so I’m a “standard user” at the moment), but I like the idea of self-identifying into a niche: I bet it makes content/friend discovery easier.

One of the side effects of the internet and new communications technology is that for years now people have been able to avoid actually talking to each other. We use emoticons and time-delays as buffers for real interpersonal contact, removing both some of the pressure and a good deal of the fun in being social.

I’m glad to see technology bringing us back to where we have real-time interactions.

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