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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+141If these guys had a brain, they would just put up some Adsense ads and rake in the money.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+73I find it ironic that utube.com literally is a series of tubes. I bet they're carried in dumptrucks, too.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -10/+781. Redirect to porn referral sites.
2. Retire.
They're just dumb. - fartingbob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62Are you kidding? Stick a few ads on there and you'll be rich!
Or indeed, sell it to google for several billion dollars. - JesusFaction, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60that's awesome
now they're gonna get dugg too - dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+56Better headline:
"Utube's Tubes Clogged by YouTube Boobs" - leopardhunter, on 02/18/2009, -3/+47It's both tragic and ironic. Their tubes are clogged.
- brunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Hahah..
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=640&h=480&r=1y&z=&y=r&u=utube.com/&u=
They weren't getting much traffic before YouTube came into existance anyway. That graph cracks me up - m0oSe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32One time I was watching CNN or MSNBC and they were talking about youtube but their URL said utube.com.
- dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21EX-farker? Why do you think I'm posting at 2AM? I'm a farkin' digger, so sleep is now only a blurry concept, like string theory or dating.
- anthonyb415, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Have you guys noticed that "utube.com" is crazy fast! Did Google begin hosting them as the article suggests?
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Lmao:
google: "utube" -> I'm feeling lucky
"He Got Big Fish"
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=dUTZvdgr42U&search=fish+cold+ads
Oh for those looking for the real utube:
http://www.utube.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15well they may have had trouble before with bandwidth... now they are on digg, they have no chance.
- DannySpace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14These guys have no idea what they are sitting on.
"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!" -Ted Turner - Plopfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Um, I think he could make a lot more money turning his site into a giant page of ads. Or sell it to Google (YouTube). -ooh well
- juneof44, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Digg is slowly taking on some ex-Fark users, I see. :)
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Or do both:
Step 1> Come to the rational business conclusion that "utube.com" is dead as a way for Universal Tube to reach it's customers and find a new domain name. This is much more sensible than the emotional business conclusion that somehow Google or YouTube will feel sorry for Universal Tubes and host their site, an act that won't fix his problem, anyway.
Step 2> At the same time, create a web page on "utube.com" which contains nothing but a link to Universal Tubes new web site at the top, followed by a page full of ads, and finally a link to "YouTube.com" at the bottom.
Step 3> Profit - pgm_01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Not only do they have Tubes, they have Benders!
http://utube.com/inv_list.asp?prmClass=Tube%20%26%20Bar&prmSubClass=Bender
The site does not state how much beer they consume. - masterc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"When clients try to look them up, they get a streaming video site. "It's lost credibility as well," he says."
"My phones are dead," he said. "And a customer who can't find my $3-$400,000 machine online will just keep searching the Web until they find it elsewhere."
Sounds bad to me... - zkarcher, on 10/12/2007, -11/+21The AIDS epidemic killed off this product:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BWwmFhfrx9I
"Try new peanut butter Ayds!" - Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10A guy in my town owned a house that was kind of out in the boonies. Big corporation comes in, builds a huge motor speedway next door to him. What does the guy do? He quits his corporate job, bulldozes his house and starts selling parking to speedway attendees. And when he gets tired of doing that, he'll probably sell the property for a ton of cash.
Got to be nimble in life, recognize the great opportunities and roll with 'em, or miss the boat altogether. - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If you're bored google "utube" and then pick I feel lucky. The results are amazingly fitting and ironic. :)
- M4v3R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9...they have 107 gif's on a single page. Owned.
- bjammin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Easy fixed.
1. Stick the site on a subdomain (site.utube.com) and put a jump page up at www.utube.com (maybe with some ads, ca$h in!)
2. Don't build a ***** website by cutting up dozens of little images. Learn HTML. No wonder your servers are hosed! - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Don't underestimate the stupidity of an average internet user.
- phezz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7http://utube.com/
Might as well get the guys site dugg as well. - etnu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Share prices are a meaningless metric without context.
GOOG market cap: ~$130bn
YHOO market cap: ~$33bn
so, even though GOOG's share price is ~17.6 times what YHOO's is, there are also only
Which indicates that there are roughly 4.5 times as many shares of YHOO stock in circulation as GOOG.
By comparison, MSFT has a share price of only 28.22, but a market cap around $281bn.
Hell, to compare a company just slightly larger than GOOG, take a look at berkshire hathaway's class A shares:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BRK-A
Their share price fluctuated more today than GOOG's total price. - AlexApetrei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Bad PR exists, bad publicity on the other hand is a myth caused by the lack of understanding people have over the terms used in the rather unkown business of Public Relations.
- killdashnine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Server problems? Try a load balancer.
And yes, the first guy was right about sticking a few ads up there. - coit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Its not his customers that are the problem, jeez! The problem is the 67.99999 million people per month that go to his site instead of youtube.
Do you guys actually read the articles, or just comment on them? - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah that doesn't quite work for perspective. This, on the other hand...
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Utube%2C+digg - vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I left them a message at http://www.utube.com/contact_us.asp:
I am writing in regards to the article about you at money.cnn.com titled "Help! YouTube is killing my business!". This article was recently on the frontpage of digg.com wherein many people commented on how you could take advantage of all the extra traffic going to your site. I thought you might like to check them out and see if they're helpful. Here is the link to the comments. Thanks.
http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTube_is_killing_my_business
I forgot to say "please ignore obscene, harsh comments...diggers mean well" - kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Maybe something has changed, but I just searched for "utube" and utube.com is listed as second page after youtube.com.
So it seems his website is listed at the top again. - bloobloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Selling price does not equal profit
- FHKE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Google Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Utube%2C+youtube - smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, but you're the first to suggest selling math. Why not sell "subtracts" or "multiplies"?
Scary that so many people misspell that 3-letter word "ads" (or its 2-letter singular form) - not just you.
Honest, I'm not really a spelling Nazi. It just made me chuckle! No offense intended. ;) - thydzik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4start a blog, least you will be guaranteed readers.
- rebz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hardly.. if these guys are making tubes, they should just make huge ones that go to their website. If you know anything about the internet, when your tubes are going slow, you just install bigger ones....
- PeteyEks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6If he was truly running a business, he would approach the owners of YouTube (now Google) to cut some sort of advertisement deal or (if the volume is high enough) start running profitable adds. If the volume is high enough, he can make a nice side profit for his business expenses.
Edit - Heh, I commented before reading the rest of you guys. It seems that I was not the only one to think of this. - sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why does he need to approach anybody? Just do it. He doesn't need anybodies permission to setup a web site with ads on the Internet. I doubt YouTube asked his permission before they launced their site.
Domain Name: UTUBE.COM
Creation Date: 25-Oct-1996
Domain Name: YOUTUBE.COM
Creation Date: 14-Feb-2005 - celeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well it looks like they changed hosting providers and upgraded their server to win2k3 from 2k... they def need adsense though... what tarts
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.utube.com - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Senator Ted Stevens warned us all of this dire day when tubes would be clogged because of people downloading movies... and of all people - it's the tube makers themselves who get hit the worst.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4In Europe we call them Valves.
- JohnMilan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I thought there's no such thing as bad pr?
- Rethcir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No PR is bad PR.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3God old people are idiots. Do the same thing www.firefox.com did but put some ads on it for christs sake. You could have retired by now with all of your millions.
- fosgate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They have aluminum Tubes!! Do I need to tell you what the ***** you can do with an aluminum tube?!
- vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2bah! they're waisting a good parody.
- GuyHitByTruck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And this is bad for business.. how?!
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