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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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Release date January, 2005
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ProSCORE
20 reviews
38
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mixed
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4 positive
1 mixed
15 negative

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Pros:
Do you agree?
Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
+17agreedisagree

Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing
+17agreedisagree

useful and free video archive
+2agreedisagree

Easy to make friends with similar interests
-4agreedisagree

Cons:
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Tough to wade through the bad videos
+13agreedisagree

Annoying stringent copyright rules
+12agreedisagree

Poor video quality
+7agreedisagree

Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all
+7agreedisagree

Frequent attacks by "trolls"
+6agreedisagree

Sometimes very slow video loading
+1agreedisagree

Video player always uses a very small window
-2agreedisagree


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6 videos: Customers get even

written by Erik Oct 19, 06

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Viral Videos, Vol. II

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Viacom to YouTube: Show me the money!

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This report was started October 19, 2006 at 1:42 pm by Omar
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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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SCLisi

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September 19, 2008
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ProSCORE
40
negative
mixed
positive
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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kayleech

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April 3, 2008
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ProSCORE
40
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positive
2 pros
3 cons
love itlove it

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

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Amanie

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October 18, 2007
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ProSCORE
40
negative
mixed
positive
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
  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Poor video quality

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Robb Lincoln

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September 23, 2009
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ProSCORE
75
negative
mixed
positive
3 pros
1 con

Pros

  • Easily embed videos into your web page or blog
  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing
  • useful and free video archive

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos

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bissap

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September 2, 2009
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ProSCORE
25
negative
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positive
1 pro
3 cons

Pros

  • Huge community of users uploading, commenting, sharing

Cons

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos
  • Poor video quality
  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all

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1stade

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April 8, 2009
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ProSCORE
75
negative
mixed
positive
3 pros
1 con

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

  • Tough to wade through the bad videos

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KirneH001

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July 28, 2008
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ProSCORE
33
negative
mixed
positive
1 pro
2 cons
love itlove it
have ithave it

Pros

  • Easy to make friends with similar interests

Cons

  • Annoying stringent copyright rules
  • Frequent attacks by "trolls"

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Erik

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October 18, 2007
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ProSCORE
67
negative
mixed
positive
2 pros
1 con
love itlove it

Pros

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

Cons

  • Annoying stringent copyright rules

Comments

"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!"
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stuuf

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October 2, 2008
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ProSCORE
0
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0 pros
2 cons

Pros

Did not agree with any pros

Cons

  • Videos cannot be downloaded in other formats, or downloaded at all
  • Video player always uses a very small window

Competitors

stuuf prefers Google Video over YouTube
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Yale

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July 3, 2008
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ProSCORE
100
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2 pros
0 cons

Pros

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

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