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Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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In answer to his comment: Because you sold your product to Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawed_Karim

For a measly $60M share. My expertise in valuing Twitter tells me he should have got at least 43.6 bajillion runes.

He was given stock in Google, which has more than doubled in price since then.

My memory is fuzzy about this, but at that time, the mpaa/riaa/etc had been coming down real hard on YouTube. Without the G or another big boy coming in, their ship would have been in a precarious situation with all of the lawsuits rolling in.

And what, pray tell, is the limit on what is 'enough'? A billion? Two billion?

Ironically, the quality of a comment from the co-founder of YouTube isn't any better than a typical YouTube comment.

Lost cause?

When in Rome...

What I find appalling is that now if I like a comment it is public on G+.

I agree. Google doesn't seem to understand that the way in which a thing is expressed is important. It's like they don't understand the difference between something announced at a press conference, and something mentioned in passing to a friend. My inability to reason about the social context of online interactions tends to seriously discourage me from expressing much in an non-(semi)-anonymous way.

https://www.youtube.com/user/jawed

Joined Apr 23, 2005 - It's actually legitimate.

Indeed - the one video on his channel was the first YouTube video uploaded.

His first comment is a word for word of my last comment.

Was the choice of the word "last" as opposed to "latest" deliberate? :)

so google can claim higher google+ subscriber rates. i just wonder if investors, ad men will be that idiotic when comparing user counts betweent say Fb and G+. real vs. forced users.

Does it really matter to them? (serious question)

Part of the point is that according to their own numbers, YouTube is the only part of Google+ anyone gives a ____ to interact with: http://marketingland.com/google-hits-300-million-active-mont...

A bit of an overreaction, considering the quality of YouTube comments has notoriously been below acceptable levels for quite some time.

While I can't agree that Google is doing the right thing by forcing +, they are mitigating the problem by doing so. We'll know in a week if the quality of comments goes up dramatically or stays the same in a few days.

.. Waiting for John McAfee-style video. "I sold it to them, and I don't know what they did to it..."

So what is next? Youtube becomes Google+ its video section.

My guess is yes. Picasa is already being merged into G+ and I hate that. It's totally confused the whole product.

For the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6695904

Because the single to noise ratio on Youtube was beyond a joke. This is, possibly, an easy way to mitigate that.

The Android Market, erm, Google Play Store, has made the switch to Google + reviews only as well. As far as I have noticed, this switch has not improved the quality of comments (although the quality was never as bad as with Youtube).

Just out of curiosity, why do you even need an account to comment on a video?

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