YouTube

What are the best sites from or about YouTube? We’ve started with these - what else should be here?

1. YouTube - Web site allows visitors to upload videos to share with the Web world as well as watch videos others have contributed. Videos can be tagged for categorizing, and the site offers personalization features to help you bookmark videos you like, videos you’ve uploaded, etc. (www.youtube.com)

2. Google to Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock - October 9, 2006 press release from Google on its acquisition of video sharing service YouTube. (www.google.com)

3. How a Bathrobed Reviewer Drew a Full House - Profile of “Lazydork”, a.k.a. Richard Stern, who used YouTube and a bathrobe to become a big enough online star to, well, quit his job as a lawyer and try to become a professional poker player. We’re confused, too. (www.washingtonpost.com)

2. Completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor - Perhaps the first credible online source to report that Google is in talks to buy YouTube for over a billion dollars. (www.techcrunch.com)

4. YouTube Acquisition Rumors - January, 2006 story dissects the rumor of YouTube’s acquisition by one media giant or another, a battle now won by Google. (www.techcrunch.com)

5. No Free Cupcakes for YouTube; NBC Yanks ‘Lazy Sunday’ - “Saturda Night Live” skit hits YouTube and NBC is not amused. This article questions NBC’s wisdom. (searchviews.com)

6. Dancing by Matt Harding - One of YouTube’s greatest hits — a man dances all across the world. Oddly absorbing. (www.youtube.com)

7. Youtube.com Lets Viewers Relive Their Video Memories - February, 2006 article from the Detroit News extols the virtues of YouTube while wondering if all the copyrighted video making its way there will make YouTube the next Napster. (www.detnews.com)

8. YouTube at Wikipedia - Online encyclopedia gives a history of YouTube from its founding in 2005 to the present. (en.wikipedia.org)