people said youtube was going to die or someone will buy it. I still think both can happen unless google works it out.
I believe one of this will happen
- google will split their products into formal and informal online videos moving all the formal to googlevideo and leaving all the informal on youtube. by formal I mean either paid or tv or the big video blogs, maybe the directors from youtube. but they will stay as 2 diferent products.
- The same as the above but to the point that ones you know it your hopping to one or the other page.
- google will kill one of them and merge the ideas into the other. and here is big point for google if they kill youtube they will become microsoft if they kill googlevideo they will stay google (read: doing what noone will think to be a good idea and doing it, like buying youtube =o)
ohhh I almost forgot, congrats to youtube founders and employees!
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Dude, you are a google hater!! Google is not microsoft. Yes, I understand that google has risen to a point both in capital and influence in the market that it can be comparable to microsoft in one context or another. No, it is not the same thing.
This is not a hostile take over.
They are not trying to buy them, just to put their service in a closet.
They are actually making a smart move.
The list can continue for quite some time. The acquisition is smart. Youtube has the content, google has the means to keep it online and fast. Yes, it will be a problem if they don’t get the copyright infrigements under control, but this is part of the future of “web 2.0″ (whatever that means!). Google cannot take the back set.
By the way, did you notice that google’s stock went up US$10 after the buy? Looks like a couple of other people also think it was a good idea.
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