Best Coverage of YouTube and Google
The big news this week on t’internets is that Google bought YouTube.
Perry Marshall, the Adsense coach, pointed at an insightful breakdown of the money aspect, which is rounded out by the Utube blog.
The best coverage and insights are not made by any ‘official’ news company - put those two together and you have a far better grip on the situation than anything you’ll read in a business magazine.
I really like YouTube and GoogleVideo because they really democratise ‘Internet TV’, its like the golden days of Napster where you can see video of anything you want, very very easily. We need this with the unfriendly Blu Ray stuff that will soon be available in all highstreet TV shops.
Fravia makes a great point on his messageboard that actually the YouTube deal is not as interesting as the ‘Google OS’ that is emerging (and that I feel may doom the Free Software Movement)
Everytime you turn your head… …something new and interesting happens “writely no more” (I’m sure you already know, but if you do not, have a look) http://docs.google.com/ forget the snooping/bigbroterish side of the thing… moron don’t care much about privacy and anyway there’s no that much difference between writing a text on line and uploading it anyway on line. thus the simple existence of this new service… the implications for our good microsoft friends are terrific :-) PS: samo as ritz and others I too wish google would stop doing (interesting) sidemoves and concentrate instead on cleaning spam ballast from its flawed results But a free on line spreadsheet and write program… Alle achtung! Also: battle of the clay giants Look look! Youtube in my left hand, see? while silently the right hand is waging real battle against Microsoft office take excel and word away from ms-claws and you have already sapped one leg of the clay giant from redmond too bad spamming and cloaking (and much more) are sawing google’s legs at the same time and vista is coming, expensive! Bad time ahead for gates minions, methinks f+
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Miles pointed me at Mark Cuban’s interesting gossip: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2006/10/30/some-intimate-details-on-the-google-youtube-deal/