Comments on: Is YouTube Killing Video Originality?

By: Pavan K

Pavan K — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:51:54 +0000

Don’t you sometimes wish you reviewed your comment before you posted it? Sorry Om/Chris, I know this isn’t Digg! ;-}

By: Pavan K

Pavan K — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:26:13 +0000

Surely YouTube (and others) are a great force to free information and enable creativity? The internet is barely a baby (in internet years). After all it will out last us all. Notably, You Tube was a major part in pushing it forward, The founders deserve credit where it is due, having created such a simple, scalable and well accepted (loved) solution, and more importantly, raising the benchmark. Startups then have no choice but to take the opportunity innovate where YouTube is too big too bother. More potential for creativity. Positives all round.

Ps @ Chris - for sure!. You need to first decide what you want to search, but there is no such service that knows you well enough to suggest the right video for your mood. I bet your own partner, best friend, or dear Mother (etc), would probably all struggle to get it right. When this is solved maybe we can genetically engineer the perfect wife too, or not. (!@?)

By: chris

chris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:06:57 +0000

Don’t act so surprised. Like the first guy says, most of anything sucks. There is some good original material on Youtube. Youtube needs to find a better way of promoting the good stuff rather than forcing us to wade through all the crap.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:35:27 +0000

what do you expect when people upload 10 hours or so a minute? here’s a frightening statistic pulled from a newsweek article: http://twitter.com/passingnotes/statuses/847828840

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:39:54 +0000

You are encountering Sturgeons Law; 90% of everything is crap.

Let me expand; in its early days YouTube was part of the 10% because it was part of the internet.

"Hey, look at this video place I found on the internet!"

Now that it's considered an entity on its own you will find that most of it is crap.

"Hey, look what I found on YouTube!"