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YouTube的失敗是誰的快樂

YouTube的失敗是誰的快樂

From CNN:

Hypergrowth comes with hyper-growing pains -- just ask YouTube. The online video-sharing site is facing a rebellion among the formerly faithful. Yesterday, blogger and longtime YouTuber Miel Vanopstal lost his cool in a post titled "Screw YouTube." Vanopstal complains that YouTube's recent upgrades have made the site significantly slower, and that new efforts to enforce copyright and delete otherwise questionable material strike him as arbitrary. He is particularly galled that a single alert notice from a "puritanically minded" fellow user can result in a video being deleted. "I've had it with these random rejections," he writes.

Vanopstal is hardly alone. A bitter Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle says that he was kicked off YouTube two months ago. Weinberg chronicles his dissatisfaction with the free (and reportedly money-losing) service, ultimately deciding that he has only one thing left to do: "Ruin YouTube" by systematically reporting all of the site's traffic-generating but copyright-violating videos. Microsoft's (Research) Don Dodge, who formerly worked at Napster (Research), adds a been there, done that post to the fray, noting sagely: "User-generated content is very difficult to manage and control."

許多忠實用戶和大喀出來公開喊話,甚至還鬧上主流媒體...YouTube如今真是蠟燭兩頭燒--燒錢也燒名聲。

這個情形似乎在台灣見過,但是無名小站活下來了...傷害很多人之後,它還是活下來了,而且越活越好;YouTube呢?

digg上有人這麼解釋YouTube的困境:技術非創新、社群未建立、主收入來源廣告不穩定(Youtube的早期採用這都是一群討厭廣告的科技高手)、次收入來源太強勢(和大公司合作,主動權操之在他)...

看似有道理,但其實web2.0的服務本來就是利用既有的技術做出新意,Youtube的社群功能也不亞於Flickr,廣告也不該是問題,因為絕大多數的web2.0服務使用份子組成都差不多,沒道理Youtube就會受害而其他服務不會;最後一點也不太有力,同時也看不出大公司將Youtube視為一個必須要費工夫控制的宣傳管道。

Comments (2)

YouTube的確是慢到令人無法忍受...
前幾天分享了一個約為1.8MB的影片,上傳過後還在必須等他處理完畢以後才能開始分享,不過這一等就超過半個小時。這麼久的時間,分享的熱情早被澆熄了...

Portnoy:

不過我聽說Google video更慢...有人等了好幾個禮拜都沒上線呢。

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