techcrunch.com — It looks like Michael Arrington’s report that Google is in talks to acquire YouTube may have been more than what he called “40% partially true.” The Wall St. Journal is reporting this morning that those talks are in fact underway, according to “a person familiar with the matter.”
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Closed AccountOct 6, 2006
The funny thing that although this story is the top headline on CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS's websites, it doesnt show up at the top of digg.Why? There are currently over 75 submissions of this same story, each only getting one or two diggs. People are STILL submitting this story over and over. So much so, that no single post can get enough diggs to stay near the top.Interesting weakness in the digg algorithm- if a story is REALLY popular, it can't make it to the front page!
ceoandpresidentOct 6, 2006
Maybe they can merge it with blogspot, and call it Gspot?
Closed AccountOct 6, 2006
bpapa, You mean like Napster was primed to be king of the f**king internet?sorry dude, businesses based on widescale copyright fraud last until the second they start making money and become a deep pocket target for lawsuits. then the lawyers swoop in to pick over the corpse.
bpapaOct 6, 2006
I think saying YouTube is based on copywrite infringement is a gross midunderstanding of the whole of the content that they have on their site.
soldanOct 8, 2006
youtube is popular because you can post illegal s**t that is all...its 90% hype..... go for the short term... Dailymotion is better and is the same damn thing....but they have hosted porn as well ...youtube is the new napster...looks good for a little while.. as far as it being popular at schools.... no wonder kids cant pass their standardized tests..
synthetronadminOct 9, 2006
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danzenOct 14, 2006
Here's a poll we did where you get to predict if people will think it is a good idea for Google and then also vote at the same time: <a class="user" href="http://www.tapoll.com/poll/id/594706440">http://www.tapoll.com/poll/id/594706440</a>