HP to acquire Tabblo
For those not familiar with Tabblo, it has a number of great capabilities for the creative individual. I was first introduced to it to view a series of video essays creating by a talented group of individuals (artists really).
I see this announcement as yet another “community space” being gobbled up by big corporation. It follows on the heals of Google buying YouTube. When YouTube was small, companies like Viacom saw them as a nuisance. Once Google was the head office, Viacom sees it as a lawsuit opportunity.
Now Tabblo seems destined to be next. I am not anticipating some controversial lawsuit to pop up but I do anticipate Tabblo to become less about a community of artistic content creators and more of a “publishing” service - ala ShutterFly.
