Gaming. Five Stars Dominate Ratings. This graph fascinated us and so we wanted to share. It shows the number of videos that receive specific star ratings: one star for when you loathe something, five for when you love it. Judging from this chart, it looks like some of you are moved to rate videos when you don't like them, but the overwhelming majority of videos on YouTube have a stellar five-star rating: Seems like when it comes to ratings it's pretty much all or nothing. Great videos prompt action; anything less prompts indifference. We're glad there are so many awesome videos on YouTube, but all of this begs the question: if the majority of videos are getting five stars, how useful is this system really? What do you think? Shiva Rajaraman, Product Manager, recently rated "Dr Who and the Daleks. " Link to a specific part of a YouTube video.
Early YouTube Engineer Tells All - GigaOM. When we recently heard about the history of YouTube’s growth strategy from CEO Chad Hurley’s point of view, he described it as “hanging onto a rocket.” But an engineer’s take is always going to be a bit less rose-colored and a bit more about the terrifying situations you brained your way out of. So we were particularly interested to tune in to a talk at YouTube’s developer conference Thursday by Cuong Do, an early software engineer who’s now manager of the site’s Core Product Engineering group. Do’s talk was titled “Behind the Scenes: A Look Into YouTube’s Infrastructure,” and he didn’t disappoint, with harrowing tales of outages; gory details about the specific languages, architectures, and tools YouTube uses; and a flow-chart level view on the way the site handles uploads and video delivery while undergoing the massive usage it sees on a daily basis. digg “One of the key phrases we had in the early days was ‘These are good problems to have,’” Do said.
AsiaMedia :: TAIWAN: YouTube will be the best, says Steve Chen. Co-founder says popular video-sharing site will become culturally relevant for Taiwanese users Taipei TimesTuesday, June 12, 2007 By Jason Tan Despite intense competition in the video-sharing portal scene, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen yesterday said his site will not be toppled from its perch. "We are 100 percent focused on creating the best platform that is the easiest to use. You will see our continued success," Chen told a Taipei press conference yesterday. YouTube has enjoyed a steady stream of visitors, who all have a say on what content is uploaded and which clips become favorites, he said. YouTube will continue to empower its users with better tools, Chen said, especially after integrating resources and expertise from Internet titan Google Inc, which acquired YouTube last October for US$1.65 billion.
A number of Web sites, including Yahoo-Kimo Inc, are looking to benefit from the popularity of video-sharing portals. YouTube Saves the World [Fool.com: Commentary] December 6, 2006. I've been waiting for a little entrepreneurial ingenuity to creep into Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG ) YouTube. The leading video-sharing site can draw more than 100 million views a day, but it's been hard to sift through the pratfalls, soccer highlights, and unauthorized television clips to find the population of crafty opportunists that I figured would have turned the site into a cottage-industry goldmine. A site like MySpace can break bands. A site like LinkedIn can turn social networking into job leads. A site like eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY ) can help you make some pocket change as you clean out your closet, or create even more lucrative possibilities once you wrap your noggin around the concept of an online marketplace.
So what about YouTube? Hello, DollyValentina from Val's Art Diary opened her YouTube account a few weeks ago. It's a brilliant business model, as long as you can draw a crowd. Is Valentina for real? Winky's model may not be as sustainable as Val's. Yahoo! YouTube wanders into copyright mire | The. High performance access to file storage Video upload site YouTube is being sued by a US television station which says it has breached its copyright, but leading intellectual property lawyers say that the site is almost certainly protected under existing laws.
YouTube hosts uploaded video clips of up to 10 minutes in length, and as well as amateur videos it hosts clips from copyright material. Los Angeles News Service filed a lawsuit last week that claims that YouTube Inc has allowed its users to upload and download its copyrighted video footage. The clip in question shows the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny by gang members during the 1992 LA riots.
LA News Service owner Robert Tur is suing over the footage. Though YouTube Inc has not commented on the case, a lawyer for electronic rights pressure group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes that the site is protected. That protection is irrelevant in the UK, says another intellectual property expert. You Tube by Google... or GoogleT.