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Netscape.com is the latest major brand after Digg, Netvibes and Wordpress joining OpenID. band wagons don’t get any larger, hm?

Jason Calacanis rolls the drums for Netscape.com, which has introduced flash-based video on their site today. and rightly so, since Netscape is the first among premiere social newssites to integrate YouTube-like video-uploads. while video-quality is similar to established competitors (read: not very good), Netscape shines with ease-of-access: videoclips appear folded right inside the news-listing and can be watched without refreshing the page. hosted videos can easily be syndicated on other websites. Netscape Video is currently available to Netscape Anchors only, but should go public very soon.

while I like the idea, I wonder weither Netscape’s contributors will primarily use video to spice up news-stories, or if Netscape becomes a place for self-contained video-uploads as well, similar to YoutTube.

update: NeoThoughts has some interesting info on this, quoting Calacanis:

“syndicated video is NOT a business. It is a feature. YouTube is not yet a business, it’s just a feature. As they start to do content deals with right holders, or build out their community, they will have a business. Flash video existed long before YouTube, they just did it better than anyone.”

ps: try this sample showcasing the iPod-arcade-games introduced yesterday