Rewind the clock about 4 years.  Youtube was created by some ex Pay Pal folks.  If a picture is worth 1000 words, how much is a video worth. Well, Google figured about 1.6 billion, buying Youtube when it was a little over one year old.  Want to learn how to use a band saw (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=YXW55S4X9zo), takeoff in an airplane (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=z985xdXW-3w) without starting the engine, play the guitar....it is all a mouse click away.

I have always been a big proponent of multimedia.  I used Macromedia Authorware years ago when I worked for the Microage franchise.  The concept was good, but the labor was much too intensive to make any kind of sense.  At DLI, I grabbed onto Camasia when it was version 1.0, and began using it screen capture and flash rendering to quickly create video overviews to demonstrate our web development tools (http://www.dlitools.com/Docova/Overviews/Uploader/Uploader.html).   We did the same for Docova, building a library of over 100 clips to show how to use our powerful web development/doc mgt framework:http://www.docova.tv/videos/QuickTour_UI/QuickTour_UI.html



I have often wondered why Lotus did not do the same.  Turns out they have, and they unveiled it at Lotusphere 2009.  The Lotus Multimedia training library: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/training/multimedialibrary.html