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Comment by djacobs | Hacker News Reader

Congrats!

Worst part of the article:

"Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."

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Hi, I'm the author of YouTube Instant. Actually, I never "announced" this site anywhere. I posted a status update to some friends to get their feedback. They shared it and it spread from there. I woke up this morning to the sound of my phone ringing - a Washington Post blogger wanted to interview me. It's been a crazy day, to say the least.

Which means that the YouTube CEO is scouring Hacker News.

Just like being a rock star, successful CEOs continue to be normal people, which is for some reason surprising to the public, and their former peers.

Which I hope wouldn't surprise anyone.

Scouring? Doubtful. Maybe he's just clicking around like everyone else.

Or, the link was shared within YouTube/Google quite a bit.

Why? Do you really think we are much different than Digg or Reddit?

The main difference is that we value slightly longer comments. (But so does Slashdot, and they have a lot more users.)

I know how he feels... Reddit has begun to suffer from a massive AOL effect, and he's afraid that the publicity may attract an unwelcome crowd here :)

It's silly to think that technology makes the site. That's about as sensible as comparing books by their binding and type face.

Longer comments, they are only LONGER? Slightly longer??

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