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Express yourself!  That's the tagline of the fastest growing website on the Internet.  YouTube, recently purchased by Google for 1.6 billion dollars, allows any user to upload a video and show it to the world.  YouTube embodies Web 2.0 featuring a slick interface, comments, ratings, and social networking.  One of the coolest features that YouTube offers is embedding videos inside of other pages, so you don't have to go to the site itself to show your friends that cool dance move you've perfected.

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Pros & Cons

Pros:
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Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
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Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing
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Easy to make friends with similar interests
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Cons:
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Annoying stringent copyright rules
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Poor video quality
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Tough to wade through the bad videos
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Frequent attacks by "trolls"
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Video player always uses a very small window
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Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all
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Articles

6 videos: Customers get even

written by Erik Oct 19, 06

Discussions

Viral Videos, Vol. II

last post by Erik Feb 2, 08

Viacom to YouTube: Show me the money!

last post by Omar Mar 13, 07

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2 comments about YouTube

1.  avatar Erik  Oct 19, 2006 1:49pm

Congratulations to the founders! I love to see this kind of thing. They had a great idea, executed well, and the rest is history. Booyah!
2.  avatar silence omo7  Oct 25, 2006 6:03pm

Where else can you find a video montage of old people flipping off a camera. Genius I say, genius!
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Key Features:

Manufacturer YouTube
MSRP $1,680,000,000.00
Release Date Jan. 1, 2005
Software Type Social, Web 2.0

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