December 27, 2005

YouTube is apparently the Flickr for video, Flickr being what many consider to be a massively popular photo sharing site that Yahoo bought in March. Popular unless you ask my mom, my sister, a variety of people who use the web but never have heard of it. Heck, even my 14 year old niece into MySpace doesn't Flickr.

The point? I don't know the conventional wisdom that Flickr is so hot is necessarily the case with the bulk of web users. I suspect it is even less so for YouTube. But that out of my system, You Tube is clearly a site for many to check out and watch. As InsideGoogle points out, you can upload video and search among all the user contributed content.

YouTube Takes Off over at the Business 2.0 blog has some stats and comments on growth, though Alexa stats pretty much leave me cold for proving anything. A few news clips can be found via YouTube itself. Keep up on happenings with the service via its blog here.