What's the hottest onlinebusiness...

[Snoopy]

What´s is the hottest online business to theis date and soon to be in the states (U S of A).

What would be the next hype?

 

[CrazyTech]

Probably I'd say the ebay concept. If you go to a local Books-A-Million or B&N you'll see practically an entire section on this - I expect sooner or later you probably will see an eBay/online auction section in these places just as you would history or reference sections.

I don't think it's quite clear what the future holds for online business. There's a lot of growth in all sectors as more and more people buy online.

 

[satsdifference.com]

Video

Can video be the hottest to get into now? Kind of like YouTube, but now more sites that are niched, particularly optimized for the mobile revolution. This is sort of a television on demand. We've heard alot touted lately about television coming to the internet, but one thing is with tv there has to be a 24 hour production of one partcular content at a time, the same for all viewers. But with video, one just has to acquire lots of community uploaded content for which anything is viewable at any time. The choosing among choices. It runs on itself.

I think the mobile phone video concept, perhaps Dot Mobi alongside, will be an enormous trend. Don't underestimate the power of mobile phone grassroots video productions either (sort of combining the trends of a blog, podcast, and personal video/YouTube). Everyone can be their own TV/video station production.

On the other hand, how fast we see market share spreading beyond YouTube remains to be proven. Can there be more than one Ebay or MySpace? People ran to Friendster and then ran off to Myspace.. People gravitate en masse to what is hot.. Perhaps new, advanced community sharing features might spark interest in other sites.. like a live mobile chat, for example, during the video site experience and exchange..

One plus for video out there is there seems to be emerging plenty of software to easily run such a community venture.. Now, is there a race to rise?


Kind Regards,

Yelo

 

[CrazyTech]

Perhaps new, advanced community sharing features might spark interest in other sites.. like a live mobile chat, for example, during the video site experience and exchange..

Think you may be on to something with that concept. Thinking down the right path to say the very least.

 

[user-7256]

The Internet has trends, just like anything else, really.

The hottest right now is probably Web 2.0 -- user-generated content... stuff like that.

Well, if you call that a "business". Otherwise, my guess is hosting?

 

[Datalife]

I'll chime in to add that video will be hot (its hot now) but can the internet handle it? Video consumes so much bandwidth that one professor said that video would eventually spell the death of the internet, (I read that somewhere)...

Even Youtube needs to be paying alot of fees to cover the enormous bandwidth usage, and not to mention my connection aint that fast either

The existing infrastructure isnt quite ready for video, I think. But Ebay sure looks a good bet, becos people equate Ebay with trading/buying/selling and they really get the goods for their money's worth.

 

[keesj]

I think we'll be seeing more developments regarding mobile services and products. Currently the WWW is still mostly accessed from a desktop computer but I think this will change soon to mobile devices like telephones. This means the location of the user will change and will become an important asset of the online experience. The WWW will be accessible everywhere, with the press of a button... so people will actually use it to look something up without wanting to browse through tons of pages.. etc.. Just have a look at Asia and imagine that over the whole world .