Obama Channel Comes To Brightcove

Many are expecting 2008 to be the year of the Beet.TV reports that Obama has arranged with Brightcove to implement a multifaceted online video strategy. In addition to the Obama channel, with more videos to come, the arrangement also includes syndication that allows bloggers to publish clips to their blogs. Of course, that will be in addition to what he's got going on at more popular online than potential Democratic candidate Senator Hillary Clinton. But then, some gym socks are more popular than Hillary Clinton. Obama will have to fight off John Edwards online, who's no stranger to online buzz, especially if the Edwards fanboys over at Rocketboom have anything to do with it. Increasingly, the Internet and especially social networks have become a world forum for politics. Now that the Internet isn't the cool but slow and unnecessary thing it was in the 90's, more people access it, and more salesmen (I meant politicians) use it to get their messages out. Even the president of India has gotten in on this business. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, made Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark murdok: