Would you pay almost 900 million pounds for this?
Ker-ching!
So, Google have bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, or "almost 900 million quid". I'm a late starter to this latest craze, I'll be honest, but this very morning, my life was made easier and cheaper by YouTube.
This week, for Radio Times film section, from the available selection of films that are on television next week, I had elected to write my Classic Movie Moment about From Dusk Till Dawn. I usually choose a film for this feature from my own DVD collection. I picked this one mainly because I like it, but also because I was convinced that I have it. Unfortunately, I must have had it on video, and before the move, as regular readers will know, the videos went to a number of grateful charity shops. You'll be ahead of me here, but I need to watch the "moment" in question in order to evocatively describe it in 188 words. Thinking I would have to walk down to Blockbuster and rent it, I decided to search on YouTube and yes, the precise scene I wanted was on there, ready to view. Thus, YouTube saved me a walk, about three pounds fifty and at least 15 minutes of my life. It also gave me a warm glow that somebody somewhere would bother to upload the scene in the convenience store in From Dusk Till Dawn where George Clooney says, "Everybody be cool!" and makes a Molotov cocktail from a toilet roll and some lighter fluid.
I hope what makes this site so joyous will not change under its new ownership.
Never done this before either, so here goes:
posted by Andrew Collins @ 4:03 PM
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Why didn't you actually embed the video into this post Andrew? That's proper You-tubing. Just wondering like.
How? The link is here, but that's not what you mean is it? Give me the tools!
All you have to do is copy the bit of code from the box on the right that says 'embed' into your blog post - easy peasy.
YouTube is magic. I hope it never changes. If you ever fancy, after a few adult lager drinks, dancing around with your missus to rubbish 80s chart-pop in your front room, you can guarantee you can find the video on Youtube in the click of a mouse-button. And it has some great obscure stuff on there too, well worth searching around for a while.
Done it! (See: above)
£900m is a lot of money to pay for a load of hard drives full of material for which you don't own the copyright. Or am I missing the point?
But it has got Blixa Bargeld, moving, worth £900k on its own!
Andrew
YouTube truly is fantastic - and responsible for me idling big chunks of my life away on my PC (well - it, and Andrew Collins' blog of course) when I should be out bird-watching!
Yea it is great. This chat about 'A' bomb tests led to me spending yesterday evening, before Nigella Lawson did her family tree bit anyway, watching Pacific bomb tests, feeble "don't worry your little head overly about a bit of fall out" information films, before moving onto a whole plethora of 50s newsreels, rock and roll clips and even performances by the fabulous Platters. All at the reach of a mouse. I was there for about three hours and don't consider it a waste for a moment. Swimming in a sea of visual history I was.
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It's the worst time-waster known to man. If you want the opening credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the bit where the woman discovers a nun with no face on Armchair Thriller or Plastic Bertrand doing Ca Plane Pour Moi in Musik Laden, then this is the place for you.
One thing leads to another, and before you know it, it's six o'clock - in the morning.
Now that google have bought youtube you can expect to see a lot of changes.
Google shareholders will not want their investment placed at risk of ligitation.
I expect that within a year, if not months, there will be much heavier policing of copyrighted content.
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Site is dangerously addictive. Have watched so many videos of old Top of The Pops performances, mobile clips of Radiohead, Old McDonalds' adverts with Jason Alexander, That one where the girls fly out of the roundabout and so on....
I see MSN have something along the gootube lines now :
http://soapbox.msn.com
I've been tinkering with it for the past couple of days and it's pretty good. They have a blog so you can communicate directly with the development team.
One point i don't think anyone mentioned is that Google didn't actually pay a penny for YouTube, they bought it with Google stock.
Perhaps all the music and TV companies who are currently circling and salivating will be payed off with stock too. That way the law suits won't cost Google a penny either.
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