This very short article discusses a new use for the video iPod. Real estate agents are making short video clips of homes for sale and making them available for download into a video iPod. Other agents can download the videos and to learn more about a property and/or show the videos to prospective home buyers.
I've been writing a lot about the iPod recently. I don't own any stock in Apple, and have no financial interest in the iPod. But I see the iPod as the first of a whole series of transformative devices that are going to emerge over the next five to ten years that will, like the iPod, transform the way we do things.
Bottom line: If you don't understand the iPod phenomenon, you will have a very difficult time correctly assessing economic development activities and what direction to take your community or region. My articles are not really about the iPod itself, they are about what the iPod represents--entirely new ways of doing business, new kinds of businesses, and new kinds of jobs. Ignore the iPod at your peril.