http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:12:44 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/28/124041.php#comment-441979 Youtube is one of the most popular video sharing sites on the net. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the Web. Hurley says, "I do not want to work hard. I want to live a soft life. I want to sleep for three hours every afternoon. I do not want to stay awake the whole day so that I can get a few grand at the end of each month. That is why I choose to live off the net. I am too lazy to try and survive in the real world. That is why I did not bother to hold down a job though my credit card debt soared. On the net things are handed to me. The idea of youtube came to me from a dinner party with a half-dozen friends in the geratest city in the world San Francisco. It was January, 2005, and we couldnt figure out a good solution. Sending the clips around by e-mail was a bust: The e-mails kept getting rejected because they were so big. Posting the videos online was a headache, too. So we created a site and put in basic software. "What I and Steve came up with is a Web site, now called YouTube, that has become an Internet phenomenon. Show the honey and the bees will flock to it. We worked for about six hours each week for two months designing youtube. We had the idea to create a community around the video. Once that was done we knew that tons of millions of dollars would just flow into our laps after a buyour which we expect to happen very soon. We will not have to work hard. In the old economy you have to work really hard for a lousy promotion which might give you a few more grand if your employer is very generous. On the net once you have the idea magic will happen. That is what happened at Paypal. "The basic software that I and Chen designed allows people to post almost anything they like on YouTube in minutes. Now we are sitting at home on our arses waiting for a buyout. I expect to make at least 400 millon dollars personally. Content has been handed to us on a silver platter. We do not have to slog hard to create content like a poorly paid online journalist who makes a lousy 450k each year. We do not have to experience daily financial pressure because our site does not get enough readers. "We have it easy. The reason why we never held a job for more than a year was because we felt that a rope was attached to out necks. We would have had to stay chained in an office with four walls. It is such a pain to get up and run for the sake of a few grand at the end of the month. the content that we offer is free. That is easy for us to that as we do not have to work to create it. Copyrighted work is there for our users to copy and paste as that is work which we have the right to copy. Other content comes from common folk wanting to share stuff. "Revenues will come from advertising. the net is a click and eyeballs business. The clicks wil come from youtube's milllions of eyeballs that we have not worked for. It is unearned traffic. We do not have to sweat and bleed for it. That is the privilege of poorly paid online journalists. I do not have to worry about losing my job as my content does not get get enough page views. I do not have to take the initiative about my own life. I do not have to discipline myself. The millions of youtube.com visitors will ensure that this will never happen. I wake up at ten in the morning. I can simply focus on trying to build relationships with my tall, tough women friends in San Francisco. We hang out together. We work out together. We sleep in the afternoon together." 441979@blogcritics.org Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:12:44 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/28/124041.php#comment-400349 Yes, these deals are flowing in a daily stream. 400349@blogcritics.org Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:48:29 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/28/124041.php#comment-400108 Warner Brothers makes a deal with bittorrent, NBC with YouTube ... it's a different world out there, all right! 400108@blogcritics.org Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:13:32 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/28/124041.php#comment-399879 In the not-too-distant future a YouTube will be buying an NBCU ! 399879@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:10:01 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/28/124041.php#comment-399874 This is probably why NBC brokered the deal. Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer kind of thing. If you can't beat'em, own them 399874@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:06:33 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/28/124041.php#comment-399667 Yep. I imagine a goodly chunk of YouTube's staff is devoted to pulling down content that could get them sued. It will be really interesting to see how big/powerful companies will deal with this phenomenon while at the same "getting into bed" with the very web platforms that see all of these illegal submissions. 399667@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:15:35 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/28/124041.php#comment-399664 So this would explain why my Al Gore on SNL clip I uploaded got removed. 399664@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:12:22 EDT