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- roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45As long as the masses are going to YouTube rather than ***** I'm happy.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Probobly because it's so easy to submit and to put it on a website. I like YouTube
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25No kidding. What about all the MySpace idiot pages with embedded youtube videos on them? That's probably 90 million services right there.
- arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23 I don't find that hard to believe, because every other website I come across has YouTube videos embedded into their site.
- britkev1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I completly agree! Its so populasr because its easy. If your mom can do it, anyone can.
- goodshape, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23flash is a browser plugin.
- steve693, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2099% of the content on his site is stolen: http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/articles/flash.html
- Jangles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I want to know how they pay for bandwidth? I hear it was 1 million a month in costs. Holy smokes.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16that was a while ago, when they weren't as popular. I can't imagine what it is not. And they still have no reliable revenue streams
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16thank you, I hate ebaum now.
Long live DIGG and YOUTUBE - brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Meh...having a small text ad below the video I think would be better. Then maybe the submitter can pay a small fee to get rid of it if they want to.
- grammarpolice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15If they make you pay $1.99 for a special account that gives you access to a section where people host their amateur porno videos, then they would be sleeping in money.
- axentrix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I wonder which server hardware, and software, they use..
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12the more people that uses youtube, , the more bandwidth that they can afford =)
- Bioshocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"YouTube, the leader in Internet video search"
YouTube, the leader in genuinely awesome Internet sites that unfortunately lack a business model beyond "spend VC money" and that I hope figure one out before they go all Dotcombust on us. - ceoandpresident, on 10/12/2007, -0/+111) Get people to upload tons of videos
2) ???
3) Profit - TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I'm fairly sure their backend is Python as they were hiring Python devs a while back.
This is cool. I enjoy YouTube and their upload progress meter keeps me occupied when I'm uploading. :P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@chicken101
No, see, you must have ???? in the thing for it to work. - davehendrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That site is so addictive....it is so easy to click from video to video....
- pjack91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah it's called ad revenue.
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Odd, I just watched a YouTube embedded video, and there are two more in other tabs I have open now. It's a very good service I must admit.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Just think of all the wasted potential for advancement when you suck out hundreds of millions of man-hours per day like that.
- Hexxagonal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11100 million videos = lots of bandwidth costs a day... i wonder how long until they go belly up
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah, but it's so worth it to see someone try to break a liqour bottle on their own head.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13im not an ebaums world fan but i really want to no why everyone on digg hates it so much. Can someone tell me? i want to hate it too.
- striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7God damn it people, quit filling up the Tubes! Ted Stevens is going to have a heart attack, it's everyone's tubes, not just YOUtubes. Thanks to these damn videos and all these ebooks it took me 20 minutes to receive the internet today, you... you... you see? You see?
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6We need to use gambling chips to unclog the tubes,
- larfus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I have been with Youtube.com for a little over a year now and have never grown tired of the videos. I won a 4 GB Nano from them and that was cool as well. I just hope they can find a business structure that can make a profit to support youtube, but not be so annoying to the end user.
- TheContinental0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@borninda818
Ebaum's World likes to think that they invented anything remotely entertaining that appeared on the internet, despite the fact that they steal content from sites like Something Awful and You're The Man Now Dog without giving credit to the creators of said content. YTMND has had an ongoing feud with Ebaum for a while now, a search for "ebaum" on the site will turn up some pretty amusing stuff. - steve693, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Now they just have to figure out a way to make it profitable. . .
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5VideoSift.com and VideoBomb.com help to find the good ones. In fact, I am watching some right now!
- pauljaroszewski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hopefully this will make ebaumsworld extinct...that guy is an *****.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5More like...
1) get people to upload videos
2) place ads on website
3) Profit!!!!!!!! - TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Considering 99% of Digg users freeload, I'd say you use Adblock.
- paulwilde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You all say that YouTube makes profits from ad revenue, but I see no ads?
- wishingwell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The biggest beef with them that I see is that they steal others sites user generated content and brand it as there own. The most vocal sites I've seen protest against this are fark, somethingawful and ytmnd. According to ebaumsworld though, their disclaimer says it can't be held legally responsible for what their users submit.
All in all it makes for some funny *****. - HelloimRayRay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Youtube is absolutely so easy to use interface to upload and view videos.
Google Video has some catching up to do... - Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll be impressed if they are here next year.
- bluemist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4YouTube has an amazing video search and tagging system. So fun hopping from one video to another and waste free time doing it.
Kinda ironic that Google is the leader in search and yet their video searching is kinda off-track. - zorpscorp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ahh, thanks, it's a bit hard to find something interesting among the massive amounts of garbage that 12-year-olds think is funny.
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Notice how Google Video is becoming similar?
- Corvillus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Add .php to any of their URLs...it works, so that's probably what they are, or at least were, using to generate pages. I'm sure they're probably using something else (probably C ) underneath that though, since they do video encodes server side.
- mikeabundo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Worksafe softcore is okay on YouTube.
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The fact is they are not making money. Let's hope they are turning heads at ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX!
- mikeabundo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And they're huge in the Philippines, too: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/05/25_things_i_lea.html
- FreakingHound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dang, check out one of the founders: http://jawed.com/resume/
not too shabby. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like it because you can embed them into sites without a whole lot of hassle.
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are a few ads on YouTube, but I'm still kind of sketchy how they are going to make money. We can argue the exact figure but their bandwidth and server costs are big. Like, really big. I don't see how ad sales are going to be able to cover that bill.
- mixx941, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I like the concept of YouTube and having a free place for people to submit videos, but I wish they would provide the files in a real format for people to download (for people who would allow their videos to be downloaded of course). That's not because I'm a "freeloader" and trying to avoid seeing ads or supporting them, but because Adobe/Macromedia will not make Flash binaries for all common operating systems/architectures, and therefore not everyone can view the videos.
-Mark - yaosio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Snack-sized? I hope that was not in the press release because the only time a press release says that is when the company is going under. WE NEED MORE BUZZ WORDS!
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