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YouTube, "the flickr of video"

To put this in perspective:

Why?

  1. Many more people are interested in watching crazy videos than looking at pretty pictures on the web.
  2. Flickr caters to the "boutiquie" web too-oh crowd while YouTube caters to the MySpace generation.
  3. You-tube had little competition out of the gate while Flickr had to deal with: yahoo photos, snapfish, kodack gallery etc.

Comments

Sun, 19/02/2006 - 6:47pm — Ryan (not verified)

When YouTube gets big enough to be worth suing, they're fucked. Well over half the content they're hosting--and I would bet the content that gets the most traffic--is copyrighted.

Wed, 31/12/1969 - 4:00pm — Zacker

I agree

check out freecultureposse.org. We threw that up this weekend in part because of this exact issue.