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Kperaset bookmarked on 2008-03-12
    • kperaset
      Kperaset on 2008-03-12
      Isn't this what most of YouTube is? People, particularly young adults flooding sites like Youtube with obnoxious videos of themselves singing and dancing - sometimes both? I should know...I'm on there.

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    • Type in "sweet tired cat" and watch a drowsy kitten dozing off. The clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks, is 27 seconds of such concentrated cuteness that you might actually have a stroke and die. It's that excruciatingly adorable.
      • Jennifer Dougherty

        Jennifer Dougherty on 2008-04-18

        Ok, this is the second time I'm typing these. I do not like this at all but here ir goes. I get that the kitten is adorable, but why video it for so long? More importantly, why are we watching it? At least the Numa Numa guy is funny.

    • But that guesswork begins in a very special, very poignant, and potentially very lucrative place: the hitherto futile aspirations of the everyman to break out of his lonely anonymous life of quiet desperation, to step in front of the whole world and
      • Jennifer Dougherty

        Jennifer Dougherty on 2008-04-18

        Just like blogs made writers publishers, YouTube has made all of us film makers and entertainers.

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  • 17 Apr 08
    • When you put together a million humans, a
      million camcorders, and a million

      computers, what you get is YouTube
    • "evolution of dance,"






    • You'd better also see "Numa Numa," which stars a chubby young man in his New Jersey bedroom lip-syncing to an insipid but weirdly fetching Romanian pop song. Or, what the hell, live dangerously. Type in "sweet tired cat" and watch a drowsy kitten dozing off. The clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks, is 27 seconds of such concentrated cuteness that you might actually have a stroke and die. It's that excruciatingly adorable.

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    • When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million
      computers, what you get is YouTube.
      • Bianca Pieloch

        Bianca Pieloch on 2008-04-17

        It amazes me to see anybody with a camcorder can record anything they want and put it on You Tube. People love watching other people do ordinary, every day things

    • "If you aren't posting, you don't exist," says Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of
      Denuo, a new media consultancy. "People say, 'I post, therefore I am.'"

      • Bianca Pieloch

        Bianca Pieloch on 2008-04-17

        I do not agree. I don't post and I still exist! I don't believe you have to follow everyone and do what everyone else is doing, just to "exist". I can do the same stupid stuff other people are doing, entertaining the people around me without broadcasting it for the world to see.

    • Or
      try the accurately titled "Noah takes a photo
      of himself everyday for six

      years."
      A time-lapse documentary of Noah Kalina over 2,356 days, it's a little


      thin on plot, but it nonetheless racked up
      more than 3 million views in six

      weeks.
    • "Boom

      goes the dynamite." It is horrifying. It is
      cruel. It is

      hilarious.
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    • "mesmerizing
    • weirdly fetching Romanian pop song.
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  • burnsk98
    Kelly Burns

    entertaining videos, dancing, life on video

    • "Boom goes the dynamite." It is horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
      • Kelly Burns

        Kelly Burns on 2008-04-17

        Wow! This was hard to watch! I feel bad for him but it looks as if he did not prep at all before going in front of the camera. I mean I understand that it is difficult to do something like that on the spot but I would try to be as prepared as possible.

    • "Boom goes the dynamite." It is horrifying. It
      is cruel. It is hilarious.
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  • 16 Apr 08
    • "Boom goes the dynamite." It is horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
      • Kristin Pucca

        Kristin Pucca on 2008-04-16

        Oh my this is so bad. Didn't he read the scores before presenting it on tv? Didn't they have people try out to do this?

    • Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable,"
      he says, "the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear."
      • Kristin Pucca

        Kristin Pucca on 2008-04-16

        This is so true. I can see how soon we will have to distinguish between watching TV on the television and TV on the Internet. Now for some shows and chanels we can watch full episodes on the internet.

      • Jaclyn Foody

        Jaclyn Foody on 2008-04-17

        This is fascinating to think about and I am sure it won't be long before it is reality.

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  • 13 Mar 08
    • It's just a little outtake from a Ball State University campus TV newscast
      • Asia Thompson

        Asia Thompson on 2008-03-13

        I feel so bad for this poor guy. It goes from bad to worse. I know what its like to get tongue-tied but the trick is to stay calm. The moment he felt embarrassed he just messed up more and more. Poor guy.

      • Asia Thompson

        Asia Thompson on 2008-03-13

        This is funny because I just added this to my other blog. I love this guy's moves! He almost does the Fresh Prince of Bel Air dances better than Will and Carlton.

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    • YouTube's fixed assets pretty much consist of a video
    • When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million computers, what you get is YouTube.
    • "If you aren't posting, you don't exist,"
    • It

      is
      horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
  • 12 Mar 08
    • So why is it worth nearly six times the gross domestic product of Micronesia?
    • the hitherto futile aspirations of the everyman to break out of his lonely
      anonymous life of quiet desperation, #11
      to
      step in front of the whole world
      and #12
      be
      somebody
      , dude.
    • When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million computers, what you get is YouTube.
    • Google has recently bet the equivalent of 257 Mervyns stores that the rise of video-sharing is more than just the latest rage.
      • kristen peraset

        kristen peraset on 2008-03-12

        Isn't this what most of YouTube is? People, particularly young adults flooding sites like Youtube with obnoxious videos of themselves singing and dancing - sometimes both? I should know...I'm on there.

  • 04 Mar 08
    • Type in "evolution of dance," which has got nearly 35 million views in six months.
    • A recent Accenture study of 1,600 Americans found that 38 percent of respondents wanted to create or share content online.
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    • "Noah
      takes a photo of himself everyday for six years."
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    • to step in front of the whole world
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    • It is horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
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    • evolution of dance,"
    • "Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for six years." A time-lapse documentary
      of Noah Kalina over 2,356 days, it's a little thin on plot, but it nonetheless
      racked up more than 3 million views in six weeks.
  • 15 Feb 08
    • Type in "sweet tired cat" and watch a drowsy kitten dozing off. The
      clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks, is 27 seconds of
      such concentrated cuteness that you might actually have a stroke and die. It's
      that excruciatingly adorable.


      And, as it turns out, extremely valuable. Google – as you may have read in
      every publication, online and off, in the entire freaking world – just
      paid $1.65 billion in stock to be the cute little kitty-cat's home.

    • Type in "sweet tired cat" and watch a drowsy kitten dozing off. The
      clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks, is 27 seconds of
      such concentrated cuteness that you might actually have a stroke and die. It's
      that excruciatingly adorable.


      And, as it turns out, extremely valuable. Google – as you may have read in
      every publication, online and off, in the entire freaking world – just
      paid #3
      $1.65
      billion in stock to be the cute little kitty-cat's home.

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  • 14 Feb 08
    • It features a courageous but overmatched freshman named Brian Collins presenting the worst sports-highlight rundown in human history, culminating in the worst sportscaster catchphrase ever conceived: "Boom goes the dynamite."
    • But don't sell Google short. Not long ago, all it had was a search algorithm and a cool logo. Now, after reinventing online advertising, it has revenue of $9.3 billion a year and good reason to believe that neither of those daunting prerequisites is out of the question.
  • 13 Feb 08
    • The price tag for YouTube, just to put the investment in perspective, is what Target paid for 257 Mervyns department stores and four distribution centers in 13 states
      • meyerb15

        meyerb15 on 2008-02-13

        Although YouTube can be very entertaining, I definitely do not think it is worth that much money. I think that outrageous amounts of money are being spent on things like this when all of this money should be being spent on actual important matters, like trying to end world hunger.

      • Bill Wolff

        Bill Wolff on 2008-02-13

        I guess valueing Facebook at $15 billion is a bit too much, too, then? That's what Microsoft valued Facebook at when it bought a less than 2% share....

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    • be somebody
      • meyerb15

        meyerb15 on 2008-02-13

        I think that the majority of people who create YouTube videos do so in order to "be somebody" and to try and create a name for themselves.

      • kimmerzx0 C

        kimmerzx0 C on 2008-03-12

        Youtube is also like the fascination people have with blogs, it is a way to get your ideas, opinions, views, and anything else that you, yourself, produce out into the world. Youtube lets you publish for the world to see!

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    • $1.65 billion in stock to be the cute little kitty-cat's home.
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    cogdog
    Alan Levine

    YouTube's fixed assets pretty much consist of a video interface and a cool retro logo. So why is it worth nearly six times the gross domestic product of Micronesia? This story will definitively answer that question.

    video web web2.0 hz07 emergingtech

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