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Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

Heather Hopkins — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:33:21 -0000

Not really a comment on this particular post (though I agree with the sentiment personally) but thought you'd be chuffed to know that last week Mashable was the #8 recipient of visits from searches for "youtube" the #5 search term in the UK. Your site was well ahead of many mainstream media outlets. I am trying to figure out a post on this, as there is something really interesting in this. Techcrunch broke the story of the acquisition and your site was among the most visited by people looking for information. We all know that news sources are becoming increasingly disparate but great to see examples of this in the data too.

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

milo — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:05:16 -0000

Quid novi?

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

mr — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:27:00 -0000

dittytv and parishilton tv was alreadyup before google took over

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

Pete Cashmore — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:25:11 -0000

Peter,

Huh?

Not sure what point you're trying to argue, but in response to your opening sentence, I definitely don't think that staying small is a good thing - I'm just saying for those who were there from the start, they'll have to be a lot more tolerant now that gaming and commercial information are becoming a bigger part of the experience. On the upside, the volume and variety of the content should increase as the site grows - you'll never search for a video that isn't there.

Impending failure? No way - not sure if you read the post, but if you did, I gotta work on my communication skills.

It's not YouTube's fault: it happens to any site that gets big. I still love YouTube and think it will just grow and grow.

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

Peter — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:15:56 -0000

yes, so the lesson is... stay small and insignificant. that's the only way to achieve true success.

huh??

this is just stupid talk. apparently, everyone has been a bit emboldened by Mr. Can't Stick to Basketball - and maybe now folks are sweatin those young rich guys. jealousy is a b*tch.

i get it - bandwagons have been around a long time. i jump on them, too. but i'm not likely to kick someone in the shins. not because i'm holier than thou, but because it's meaningless and petty.

this post strikes me as being as lame and naive as Francis Fukuyama's laugher, 'The End of History'. It's a little bit of 'state the obvious' mixed in with a healthy dose of 'self-congratulatory schadenfreude' - i.e., this post is worthless, or less than worthless, inasmuch as any observations that it actually makes about the existing/developing/impending failure of YouTube are non-starters and near-perfectly irrelevant.

so, you got that, kids of MySpace and YouTube? you're gonna have to stop liking and using these websites, now.

why?

well, because we adults know what you kids want. we really do. you're too stupid to know what you want, so we'll figure it out for you. so, you now hate MySpace and YouTube and any other website that dares serve you up Mr. Diddy and Ms. Dally.

got it? good.

so many problems! they have so many problems! what will they do? more exclamation points! what will happen if... what will happen when... and then there's this... and what about that...

it's like reading a mashup version of the Drudgery Report. entertaining if you want to get yourself all worked up and have a little fun sniping from the treeline, but ironically, at the end of the day - it's just meaningless clutter. so much for that signal-to-noise ratio.

doh!

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

Sam — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:39:20 -0000

I'm in agreement with the poor signal-to-noise ratio. Time for social aggregate sites like KungFuGRIP.com to help separate the quality from the crap.

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

Terrence — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:37:08 -0000

I think the founders pulled off one of the biggest (I hesitate to use a negative word like scam) coups of all time. They just made $200m each in the space of 2 years, for something which although incredibly successful, is also very tenuous. No one understands how to build and create community, or what the dynamics of why one succeeds and another fails. It would be easy for any major media company, such as Fox, to create something even more popular then youtube, because they actually own content they can leverage. However, they are afraid of that, and unsure of the future, and these dudes CLEANED UP during this (probably brief) period of confusion.

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

Jawad Shuaib — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:51:01 -0000

Interestingly, YouTube users dislike DiddyTV and Paris Hilton for making corporate appearence on the site. It undermines YouTube community's culture.

Re: YouTube: Why The Fun is Officially Over

gigi — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:34:27 -0000

well... i guess that is what gonna happen when a website gets too much attention... i mean, same things happen to MySpace. loads of commercial fake profiles.. comment spams..