YouTube FTW!

If you don’t know of youtube, then you’ve been under a rock for years.. Or on really bad dial0-up or comcast connection.

It’s funny that youtube is becoming a “one name term”, just like google has been.. Youtube it.. Google it.. LOL

Wtf is YouTube?

Seriously, YouTube is changing a lot in regards to ‘new media’. Very soon, you will see a lot more people running a business either on or around YouTube. It’s giving new light to many individuals and companies.

I use YouTube a lot. I never uploaded any videos anywhere until I came across You Tube. It’s so simple

Great post as always Chris. I hate to say it but your absolutely right.. when my mother knows more about youtube then I do and I’m a “geek” theres a problem. I was faced with this exact situation several months ago. I have since spent much time surfing “the tube” and is honestly How I found Lockergnome and the Pirillo show ;) Youtube indeed can deliver it is user friendly, it is ease of access and while quality might leave something to be desired. When my mother knows more about it then her techie son that says volumes about the power of youtube.

I wish someone would tell Viacom and NBC.

Yes. YOUtube ftw!

I have been using youtube for over a year to upload my videos, and surprisingly enough, I have accumulated 23 subscribers in that time.

It is surprising to me because of the fact that I can act like a total idiot on camera, and people find it funny and subscribe. I don’t even have 23 friends in real life, but on youtube, I’m gaining popularity!

I think another thing that makes it so great is the fact that you can indeed, subscribe. you don’t have to sort through videos to find what you want. (like I used to do) Instead, the videos with your interests are brought straight to you!

Indeed. Youtube for the win.

Sidenote: For all the complainers who are bitching about the low quality video, YouTube this week has started rolling out high quality streams. They are definitely working to make improvements to the site.

This opens up quite an array of possibilities. It makes blogs, web pages, and the internet as a whole more of a Video-on-Demand source rather than a static page of information as in the past.

You have always been on the bleeding edge so to speak with your Youtube vid-casts and this announcement by Youtube only proves that the internet is becoming *On-Demand* or at least as close to live as the bandwidth will allow at this point.

I have browsed the Google API’s for Youtube here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/code.html and they are covering all the bases. Java, PHP, and even a ‘php wrapper’ on sourceforge. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpyoutube )

This will put the ability to track embedded videos virtually anywhere on any website rather than having to always go to the main Youtube interface as in the past and be able to search, extract, and manipulate the data attached to those requests in a meaningful way. I am excited to see where this is headed because I will also be able to use this tool on a website that I am working on.

This is true, YouTube is starting increase the quality on there videos, I’ve seen a few that looked almost real with the quality they have set.
I am happy that YouTueb is doing what the audience wants and not what they want, this is what makes a good healthy community, because already a surf to YouTube has cheered up a bad day I have had.

I am just happy about the way that YouTube turned out.

easy to say for you Chris because you signed up long time ago and you don’t have 10 minute limit, but I signed up later and I have this limit. Could you say something about it ? Make a post please entitled “how to overcome 10 minute limit at YouTube” because I am certain that millions of people are googling exactly this…

People dont yet get tagging of content. they will eventually and sites like Flickr will show their benefits. YouTube have been slow to update to higher quality but they also have the most expensive job in doing it. A downloadable application is the way to go for better quality encoding.

I love youtube and have tons of vids on it. Youtube is how I found pirillo!!! I love youtube. Great post chris

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Ah yes, You Tube. I’ll never forget an email I received from an uncle who had just discovered You Tube. He asked if I had heard of it, and like all good relatives, he sent along the link. He then preceded to give me a brief description incase I had know idea what he was talking about, hehe. His description is as follows, You Tube is like a video buffet, there’s a little bit of everything and just enough for anyone to find something they like.

good post.. youtube is almost my main form of entertainment id rather watch a bunch of interesting people talk on youtube then a bunch of over paid people on tv. I can only hope that youtube’s popularity continues to increase over the years

Youtube is great because you can find anything important that happened in the news on it. If the presidential election comes to a close, you can find his victory speech the next day on YouTube. You could find the winning touchdown, the American idol winners, and the Oscar winners’ speeches the very next day.

About time. Youtube and google is going to rule the media sectors of the internet.

Youtube is the Place to be. If you want to have a succesful podcast Youtube is the Place. Chris is perfect proof of that. And it will get even better when youtube video quality becomes better.

I upload youtube, my parents know what youtube is, hell, my Grandmother knows what youtube is. Its the usership that counts folks, not the quality and features. Vimeo is 10 x beter than youtube, but lacks the usership of what youtube has.

It was like shutterfly and Flickr. eventually, Flickr became a great site and now has a vast usership, no other site has been able to keep up.

People know of MySpace and YouTube but not Flickr? What are people doing online these days?

I agree 100%, You tube is the ONLY video sharing site that delivers the community as well as the ease of use to provide anything and everything to the online world.

Youtube FTW!

Agree YouTube is the last one standing. After the fall of Stage 6 and Veoh going more commercial network, with too many changes to software I might add, YouTube is it. Everyone keep posting the videos!

I completely agree. The quality is pretty mediocre, but you can’t beat having videos shown to the seemingly unlimited amounts of viewers. It’s strange how much YouTube has changed, for example, the way people can get famous. Many stars arise from the site. I absolutely love it and can’t wait for when we’ll be able to upload higher quality videos. Great little blog entry.

Youtube is so common today that almost anyone who has visited or used the computer in the last couple of years knows about it. If you are trying to find a video the first place people go is to youtube. There is so much there and most people go there for what they want. Other websites may offer better quality but Youtube has the largest community and is the most well known of any site. I recently started posting videos of my school it is a great website and almost everyone knows about it

In a world where so many company’s are putting their products behind closed doors and getting more restrictive about what you can and can’t do, this is a breath of fresh air. I will probably never use this feature, but the fact that they are opening this up to people is, in my opinion, a major step forward.

There is no question that YouTube has managed to bring online video to the forefront of the internet’s consciousness. YouTube has done for the amateur video producer what Google did for search engines. It has become the everyman’s video outlet to the public, and now we’re seeing attempts by other sites to capitalize on a phenomenon.

But until someone figures out how to take this to its next stage of evolution in online video for the masses, YouTube will likely continue to lead the pack. We can only hope that they do not allow their place at the forefront to stifle ingenuity that will lead to that evolution.

Im am on youtube daily. Its mostly for Chris’s Posts that I may have missed live or stuff I wanna see again. And its usually the first place I hit when I want info on somthing, want some quick entertainment, or am just plain bored. On long car rides I can watch youtube videos on my iPhone to pass the time. I even have posted a few little comedy shorts on there. It has become the king of video internet. There has not been a time where i have searched for somthign specific i want to see and have nothing come up there is pretty much a video for anything imaginable on youtube. I think it will stay ontop for a long time

I agree. You Tube has been a successful medium in this front. I was originally pulling for Meta Cafe, but they failed miserably. I think what YouTube should do, is contact the other sites, and see if they can buy them. As Google owns them, it shouldn’t be a hard purchase. It would really unify the Videos on the internet.

, is already on board to use the API in their game to send videos of the game straight to Youtube: Youtube is a massive entity, one of the top 5 websites on the web, and itdeserves some praise, but I have a void that I long for. High definition video. Vimeo does it and does it well, so why can’t Youtube? They have the massive data capacity of Google behind them as well as the capital, so where is it? I already know about the

Of course youtube is the greatest out there, but its so noisy its suckin a lil bit. And yeah, even like that its the best.

YouTube is now one of the biggest online communities in the world & the internet that it is almost a standard “go to” site if anyone wants or needs to research, watch, discuss, or even publish their own work (given they do not violate any terms & conditions).

YouTube can be accessed and be used by anyone. I love how because of this, anyone in the world can see your or other’s talent over the internet for free. You can search anything, and as long as it does not violate their terms & agreement(s), you can find almost anything that you would of wanted, from music videos to product reviews to one’s encounter with a ghost in his house and letting the world know about it, but what I also like where YouTube can be put in one’s life is if you ever get put in the situation to “prove it”, grab a camera or webcam and you can prove it, and show everyone your accomplishments, your opinions, your ideas.

I wish YouTube has a special .exe program to make the experience better, for novice or advanced users for those familiar or unfamiliar with the network.

Chris,

Although I think I am defying the point of this post, I thought I would mention that just because MOST people know about YouTube, it doesn’t mean that you should not post on other video sites as well. I am a starting video podcaster (as shown in an earlier blog post) and I actually usually get more views on my Revver than I do on YouTube!! Sorry to defy your point, but I thought it would be good to make it clear to the people that although many people know of YouTube, other sites also have traffic.

I hope this helps some random blog reader/googler out there!

I’ve known about youtube for a few years but it wasen’t until recently like the past 7 months that I got an account and started uploading videos. I know that I dont have the following that chris has but I am starting to get a following with a few people subscribing to my videos every week. The amount of information and amount of videos on youtube can fancy anyones needs just for watching funny stuff or learning how do do something as little as using a simple program. What would the internet be like without youtube: dull, drab, boring maybe.

I didn’y know about you tube till one day my kids came home asking to go there to watch charlie the unicorn,since then we’ve watched many videos.I didn’t know about flickr eather(it turns out I have a pro account with my DSL service)till I clicked a link to Chris’s flickr page.Since then I’ve sent many links to friends and family for both sites.

Man i couldn’t count the hours i’ve spent on youtube. i can’t remember not knowing about youtube i duno what i would do without it.

I love YouTube! It has everything for everybody. I can’t think of one person that is bored that can’t find anything to watch on youtube. It’s like the google of video entertainment!

Youtube popularity is changing the very way that media is created and accepted by the world we live in today. This is being taken seriously by all current media outlets and up incoming media producers not only to promote but to deliver their content much like you Chris. A few months ago, I came across a new three minutes show that started out on Youtube and gained so much popularity that it picked up by a network. Youtube is a power house that should be used and/or exploited by everyone especially by those who have a message, content, and ideas they want people to know about. Although there are other video sites Youtube is the only fastest way to get the message out and get noticed. The downside to this is that there are people that post crazy and strange things just because they want a few seconds or minutes of fame. I just wish that people would post meaningful videos and not just looking for fame.

I’ve had a youtube for about since it started and never got a directors accoutn so im stuck with 10 min vids.

Just in case, you can still use Seesmic services.

You can do your video on yourtube, include it in the Seesmic Player which could be include in any blog page (with html code) and provide an easy way to “video reply”.

my 2 cents,
Phil