The Rethininking of Storied Navigation and online videos

Today I got this message from one of my friends, saying that there's a online video service-providing company who has asked for something similar to what Storied Navigation does. It sure is something exciting.

Indeed we are stepping into (or literately LIVING IN, if you agree) the digital age. As what Chris Anderson wrote in his recently-published book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, computation power, storage, and bandwidth, are becoming cheaper and cheaper. They're becoming so cheap that they're all gonna be free soon, like very soon. And that video will become the major form of media online is no more a prediction, but something happening right now. Search is certainly the first-priority problem which needs to be solved, but when do we envision it to happen: where users need more than watching individual clips at a time or posting one clip in one tweet/blog post, and look for a series of clips to construct the so-called "flow" or even "perspectives", captured by the idea of StoriedNavigation?

YouTube is not doing too bad. It has its own social network, it has keyword recommendation (or maybe even collaborative filtering), and people ARE watching one after another clips on youtube via all the resulted hyperlinks that are shown to you. What StoriedNavigation provides is a thematic approach of finding out how the story could proceed in the way that some perspective can be constructed during the process of walking through the video corpus. If YouTube would ever want to acquire this kind of functionality in its service, I suppose it'd because they somehow discover that the meaning or motivation of consuming online videos has shifted from entertainment, introduction, promotion or marketing, and all the traditional purposes in broadcast systems, to somehting more twitter-like: snippets of ideas, observations, or emotions?

In other words, what we'd be interested in finding out is, thus, "Is the usage of the media form of online videos becoming more and more instant and fragmented, just like microposts on twitter that originate from the longer blogposts in the Web2.0 construct, or even the more formal html webpages in the Web1.0 world, so that a different mindset of using these these fragmented clips will emerge, e.g. people will take advantage of online videos in a different way, and also manage the videos in a different way?" If the answer is Yes, then is a novel mechanism that allows users to collect and make up streams of fragments that symbolize their streams of thoughts, going to be useful to most people at all?