Personally, I think what you have written is full of shit for a few reasons.
1) Because I have read about 30 articles where it specifically states that all of the youtube.com founders busted their asses working to pull it together and “6 hours each week for 2 months” means a whopping 48 hours was spent creating Youtube – and that is ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT.
2) If you even knew how to program 1) would be the planning that went into it not the programming so your apparent “article” is full of shit there.
3) A Google Search for some of the article showed nothing


except this same article posted by you in other places.
4) Stop the bullshit and leave the blokes that created youtube, got rich of youtube and now are still successful – be successful.

Have a cry somewhere else fk face.

Also – FK OFF WANG and stop spamming

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 and nine hors at night. I do not want to stay awake the whole day so that I can get a few 30 grand at the end of each month. I do not want my talwents to be exploited by a ruthless employer. 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 by Google. 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 the Google buyour. 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. You have to get up 3early in the morning and run for a few grand. On the net you can become rich without working hard.

“On the net once you have the idea you just sit at home and then magic will happen. That is exactly what happened at Paypal, Skype, MySpace, Facebook. The basic, simple to design software that I and Chen designed allows people to post almost anything they like on YouTube in minutes. People can jack off on porn. Now we are sitting at home retired early after the Google buyout. 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 are not under pressure to meet deadlines. We get up at ten in the morning and consider that to be hard work. We do not have to work for ten llllong years. That is the privilege of those in the old economy. they take the tube to go to work for a bum 350,000 dollar paycheck at the end of the month.

“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 in the morning and run for the sake of a few 350 milli 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. Google understands this. The clicks 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. I do not have to worry about having a career. The millions of youtube.com visitors will ensure that this will never happen. 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.”

-actually I remember reading a story about google developing software that would dissect keywords from your computer microphone and displaying relevant ads.. could this be used on videos? Maybe.

The press release that google released stated that the product will keep its distinct brand identy and the orignal 67 employees would continue to work for YouTube. Doesn’t seem overly evil. Seems more like a partnership between two companys who both have something to gain. I look forward to seeing how this turns out.

Today 62,950. 1 wk. Avg. 58,450. 3 mos. Avg. 47,380. 3 mos. Changeup 89%

advertising potential. dumbass

the do no evil mantra is starting to slip. how did microsoft start out? gates buying off DOS…

I don’t think it will happen, but should it… we might want to keep google in check

Yes, Google did not have the stats that YouTube did, but Google has all the resources in the world to get the masses. If you look at Google Videos, it seems like Google didn’t put all its energy into it. Take a look at Google Video Upload application
I could code a better application in 30 minutes. I don’t understand what went through their head when designing Google Video GUI. It sucks.

I would be all for this deal if Google atleast tried its best to make it out on their own. But they didn’t. I love Google, but this is one crazy deal. $1.6 Billion? like, come on.