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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Release date January, 2005
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ProSCORE
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37
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mixed
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4 positive
0 mixed
15 negative

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Pros:
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Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
+16agreedisagree

Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing
+16agreedisagree

useful and free video archive
+1agreedisagree

Easy to make friends with similar interests
-3agreedisagree

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Tough to wade through the bad videos
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Annoying stringent copyright rules
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Poor video quality
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Frequent attacks by "trolls"
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Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all
+6agreedisagree

Video player always uses a very small window
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6 videos: Customers get even

written by Erik Oct 19, 06

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Comments

1.  avatar Erik said:

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!
Oct 19, 2006 1:49pm
2.  avatar silence omo7 said:

Where else can you find a video montage of old people flipping off a camera. Genius I say, genius!
Oct 25, 2006 6:03pm
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ssarahbrown

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October 16, 2008
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ProSCORE
38
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3 pros
5 cons
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing
  • Easy to make friends with similar interests

Cons

  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all
  • Video player always uses a very small window

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Fila

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September 16, 2009
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29
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2 pros
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Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all

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theojepsen

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August 1, 2009
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29
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2 pros
5 cons

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all
  • Video player always uses a very small window

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Coop

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July 23, 2009
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ProSCORE
14
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1 pro
6 cons

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all
  • Video player always uses a very small window

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rickzmond

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July 13, 2009
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29
negative
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positive
2 pros
5 cons

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all

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Howlsthunder

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April 3, 2009
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ProSCORE
29
negative
mixed
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2 pros
5 cons
have ithave it
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all

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emluca123

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March 21, 2009
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ProSCORE
33
negative
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positive
2 pros
4 cons
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Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all

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lonehunter

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January 4, 2009
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ProSCORE
33
negative
mixed
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2 pros
4 cons

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"

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mugglensu

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December 29, 2008
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ProSCORE
33
negative
mixed
positive
2 pros
4 cons

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality
  • Video player always uses a very small window

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SCLisi

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September 19, 2008
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ProSCORE
40
negative
mixed
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2 pros
3 cons

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Poor video quality
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"

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