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Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by epsylon »

citricsquid wrote: post #38
homosaur wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uh, you mean like Vimeo?

Vimeo is not a Youtube alternative. Vimeo is to Youtube what Hacker News is to reddit. Vimeo is a nice video platform for creative projects, they do not allow a large amount of the content that Youtube does (no gaming videos, no dumb cat videos) and so it's not really suitable to replace Youtube. There are other alternatives though, dailymotion.com is fairly popular and will accept anything.

dm's player and overall speed is unfortunately way behind youtube.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by smanuel »

- Google is afraid of Facebook

- Google wants more users in Google+

- People don't care about Google+

- This doesn't change the fact that Google is still afraid of Facebook and wants more people to use G+

- Google will try to do everything it can to drag you into this service which you won't use anyway

What's so strange about this?

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by speeder »

homosaur wrote: post #28
jiggy2011 wrote: post #27

Surely it wouldn't be it couldn't be that hard to built a better youtube and seed it with quality content. I'm surprised nobody has succeeded. Is it just that the costs of serving video require an enormous company or is it that the term youtube is basically synonymous with "internet video".

uh, you mean like Vimeo?

Vimeo is terrible, very anti gamer, to.the point they ban developers that put trailer videos on their service. I am personally very happy that YouTube now match Vimeo quality and happily hosts my trailers for me.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by jannotti »

andor wrote: post #36
VikingCoder wrote: post #7

Because YouTube comments were completely useless, and now the company is trying to make them useful / interesting. If I go to a viral video, and I see comments on it from people I actually KNOW, I personally think that would be really cool. That was completely impossible, the old way.

If I go to a viral video, and I see comments on it from people I actually KNOW, I personally think that would be really cool. Or really creepy. a- Imagine you're going to a real world bookstore. You look at the back cover of a few books and all the reviews are by your Google+ "friends". Customized for you to increase the chances you're buying it. (If ads are going everywhere and you try to ignore them, what will be l…

a - That would be awesome.

b - That would be awesome (since I assume you mean the beter direct analogy, which would be that any of my Facebook friend's statements about being there are visible. Now I know who to chat with about restaurants, sights, etc.)

c - Can you say strawman? Making up a dystopian future and placing it alongside something you don't like doesn't make the thing you don't like any more like it.

Youtube comments are universally derided as trash. This might make it better. It might also simply stop a lot of comments. And in fact, probably both.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by mathattack »

hobs wrote: post #12
doe88 wrote: post #8

That way Google+ can claim 1 billion active users and say their service is a huge success, even surpassing their nemesis Facebook.

Don't forget the likely increased revenue tying more accounts to real names to sell impressions that are more targeted. It's all about the money.

I think the goal is ultimately more targeted advertising. In a way this is helpful. It would be great for adult advertising to stop showing up on cartoon videos.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by ToastyMallows »

sker wrote: post #20

I've pretty much given up. Google has deleted my playlists and favorites countless times. Every time they try to integrate YouTube with one of their services/account management, I end up losing everything. My only consolation is that Google+ is accumulating a lot of vitriol and hate across the web. It's shaping up to be the most hated "social" product in the entire Internet.

I've never had this happen and I've had a YouTube account for a while. This honestly sounds like a bug of some sort. Have you found other people experiencing this?

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by homosaur »

citricsquid wrote: post #38
homosaur wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uh, you mean like Vimeo?

Vimeo is not a Youtube alternative. Vimeo is to Youtube what Hacker News is to reddit. Vimeo is a nice video platform for creative projects, they do not allow a large amount of the content that Youtube does (no gaming videos, no dumb cat videos) and so it's not really suitable to replace Youtube. There are other alternatives though, dailymotion.com is fairly popular and will accept anything.

I'm not sure you can have both high quality content and a zero barrier to entry. I actually think YT does an okay job surfacing some decent content for folks on the homepage, especially when you're logged in. I seem to anecdotally find the "related" sidebar more useful in recent times as well.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by Wilya »

VikingCoder wrote: post #7

Because YouTube comments were completely useless, and now the company is trying to make them useful / interesting. If I go to a viral video, and I see comments on it from people I actually KNOW, I personally think that would be really cool. That was completely impossible, the old way.

The overlap between people who enjoy the same videos as me and people I trust enough to them tell my real name is almost non-existent.

And I'm not sure I'm the only one thinking that way. If I want to talk about a video, I can, you know, share it (I can even share it on Google+, that way Google loses nothing). If it turns out to be a really cool video, I'll even maybe get to impress my friends that way.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by ZeWaren »

sker wrote: post #20

I've pretty much given up. Google has deleted my playlists and favorites countless times. Every time they try to integrate YouTube with one of their services/account management, I end up losing everything. My only consolation is that Google+ is accumulating a lot of vitriol and hate across the web. It's shaping up to be the most hated "social" product in the entire Internet.

I also had my playlists and favorites deleted during a Youtube/Google merge. Quite annoying. I should have used backups.
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