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Youtube founders got paid handsomely while the guys who work day (and night) to make Youtube what it is got nothing.
The guys behind popular DIY shows (like Ask a Ninja or Chad Vader), demand bigger dressing rooms, better microphones… See the whole list of demands:

If you have trouble with Mark’s Scottish accent, I suggest […]

An ex-Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, died by radioactive poisoning on Thursday. The news is still being commented and there’s no conclusive evidence about Russia’s involvement.
There’s an obvious beneficiary from this death - Russia’s current regime and/or the KGB (now FSB). The Russian parliament voted in June to allow state officials to carry out overseas […]

The New York Times has grown to embrace Youtube’s ascent.
They just came out with an article about Youtube’s Greates Hits.
Charles Isherwood goes ahead and posts a dozen Youtube videos that demonstrate its high class.
Until recently I had assumed that the “you” in YouTube referred to anybody but me, maybe everybody but me. Like who? […]

An article in The New York Times, showcases Google’s new muscles. The article focused on a new facility that Google is building. Here’s the photo:

The article speculates that it’s all related to Google keeping its leading position in search. I think these guys are probably right - though not 100 percent. I bet a lot […]

Google recently bought JotSpot, a wiki company offering hosted applications for SMBs. The interview comes courtesy of Scoble.

The most important point he made was that the most important “revolutions in technology were do-it-yourself revolutions, i.e. when you give a non-technical person has the same ability that only a technical person has had historically…”
One funny […]

I love browsing Youtube for the DIY shows that surface there. A recent “phenomenon” is Chad Vader, a show about Darth’s younger brother. Obviously, Lucas hasn’t sued them yet!
I just saw this announcement from the creators, it provides a peek behind the scenes of a show like that.

It’s a relief to see that some of […]

Marc Cuban recently explained how making playlists in Youtube and then downloading them rivals Apple’s iTunes model for music and video downloads.
He’s right of course. I’ve done a few playlists myself with the same goal in mind. What was my surprise when I came back to one of these playlists 2 weeks later.
The playlist […]