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Nov 6, 2006 2:00 PM
Posted by Richard Baguley
Invention Of The Year: YouTube?
Posted by Richard Baguley
Time Magazine has just awarded YouTube their coveted Invention of the Year award, claiming that the site “created a new way for millions of people to entertain, educate, shock, rock and grok one another on a scale we've never seen before.” Rocking and groking aside, I’m really not sure that the site deserves the award. Sure, it’s popular, and yes, kudos to the founders for selling the site to Google for a king’s ransom. But it wasn’t the first video hosting site: YouTube was launched in 2005, after Vimeo, Revver and Grouper started. They didn’t invent the concept, nor did they offer any radical new features that made it better than the competition. What they did do was make it easier to upload and view videos and, as this blog post points out, kick Google’s Ass. But that doesn’t really qualify it as an invention to me. What do you think?Technorati Tags:
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Time Magazine has just awarded YouTube their coveted