The half-baked former MTV celebrity Carson Daly and former MySpace Chief Executive Richard Rosenblatt have paraded around promoting ChannelMe.tv for approximately two years. For close to $30 ChannelMe.tv offers individuals a .tv domain address and social-networking tools including widgets, subscription feeds, blogs and buddy lists. Video and social networking have been among the web’s hottest gimmicky trends which you would think is good news for Rosenblatt and Daly, but unfortunately there is one major difference between their social networking platform and those commonly used by millions of Internet users daily. Channelme.tv is a social networking platform strikingly similar to My Space and You Tube, but individuals have to indirectly pay for it when purchasing a .tv domain and what exactly are they getting?

As it currently exists the ChannelMe.tv social networking platform is limiting the possibilities of .tv domains and targeting very limited markets. Technology experts agree that ChannelMe.tv social networking sites are nothing more than glorified parked pages and in the future will fade away into obscurity. Individuals cannot explore their creativity and are ultimately dissatisfied with the free platform. Corporations cannot create true and accurate corporate representations and as a result do not dare to utilize such gimmick. Many individuals utilizing this social networking platform already realize its limitations and have outgrown it.

Existing before the inception of Demand Media, Unity 4 Humanity, Inc. since April 2006 has set many standards and benchmarks in the .tv industry. They do not embrace the social networking .tv domain platform. More and more corporations are taking advantage of the Internet Television Merger and developing unique .tv channels otherwise known as Internet Broadcasting Networks. Unity 4 Humanity develops Global Web Presences that utilize a .com and .tv channel as foundational elements with other TLD’s functioning as peripherals. Fortune 500 corporations are exploring the unlimited marketing opportunities available with uniquely developed .tv channels, and they are doing so with the best in the industry, Unity 4 Humanity. Individuals are frequenting Dot TV on Demand because it showcases uniquely developed .tv channels and makes them easy to find. At the end of the day it is clear there is a difference between Unity 4 Humanity’s .tv channels and Demand Media’s .tv domains.

Demand Media’s .tv domain development services are contributing to the delinquency of the Internet. As a media mogul Rosenblatt has done nothing special with his new endeavor; in many ways his company’s social networking software is riding the coattails of established social networking sites. Dot tv domains under his control have done little more than inspire individuals to pull already created videos from massive video social networking sites already existing. One would think all the investor capital would inspire his corporation to develop and create something amazing, but unfortunately he has produced more of the same and/or purchased already existing and prominent entities. There are those who create the times we live in and those who merely live in the times; ChannelMe.tv is more of the same and nothing new.