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GooTube

Ben Werdmuller

04 Nov 2006

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/04/gootube/

A very interesting take on the Youtube sale over at Valleywag:

In other words, Google bought the lawsuits. And that may be its smartest purchase yet.

Put in that light, $1.65 billion begins to make sense. Youtube as a test case is worth far more to the Internet than Youtube as a site, particularly when Google’s UK ad revenues are beginning to eclipse TV.

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Communities will build trust and loyalty for local public media. Chicago Public Media is taking a big leap forward.

As social networks fill up with AI slop, trusted relationships and communities will win.

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