Well, heck! If Coutsie can get Mod Access, then it surely isn't worth much now is it! Thanks for making my rank seem so...cheap
.Computer Science Canada Google Tube |
| Author: | bugzpodder [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:05 pm ] |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_on_bi_ge/google_youtube |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:09 pm ] |
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hmm, ive heard rumors, but never actually saw anything this concrete before, thats kind of interesting, Google will probably in the end buy YouTube for an extroadinarily large sum of money though |
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| Author: | md [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:00 pm ] |
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Such a baseless rumour; based on one blog post titled "Completely unsubstantiated rumour". I'm not entirely sure it'd be good for google to even consider it, given how much money youtube loses, and it's current spat of copyright troubles. |
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| Author: | Neo [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:49 pm ] |
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It was on CBC or whaterver, the figure is about 1. something billion. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:21 pm ] |
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I've heard the asking price being 1.5 billion.. I think the talks are rumored to be in the neighbourhood of 1.6... This doesn't make sense to me though. YouTube has a questionable business model, and as has been pointed out - copyright lawsuites all over the place. Google doesn't even gain any technology out of it - they already have Google Video. At 20 million users, the buyout price is $75 / user. I realize that Google will splatter their own ads all over the place, but that still seems kind of out there. Though perhaps I'm not yet seeing something that involves AdSense and Videos (though they already have video ads in very limited quantaties). Ether way, since YouTube has been started less than 2 years ago, this is friggin phenominal. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:58 pm ] |
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1.5 billion for increasing traffic six fold |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:05 pm ] |
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if compsci.ca was to be priced using the same model, then our 4000 unique hits per month * $75 = $300 000. boo yeah! Though obviously our traffic is not anywhere near the same value as YouTube's, and Google isn't interested. I wouldn't sell out anyways, since after sharing the money with Dan and the rest of you guys, it's really not that much. |
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| Author: | md [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:20 pm ] |
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Tony wrote: I wouldn't sell out anyways, since after sharing the money with Dan and the rest of you guys, it's really not that much.
Wait a sec... you'd share it with us? Interesting... |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:56 pm ] |
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I'm willing to sell my share. Starting bid is CDN $1. This is moderator access, people! |
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| Author: | Delos [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:10 pm ] |
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Well, heck! If Coutsie can get Mod Access, then it surely isn't worth much now is it! Thanks for making my rank seem so...cheap . |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:26 pm ] |
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I'll throw in Delos' share for an extra CDN $0.50, any takers? |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:30 pm ] |
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I think I'll pay $1.50 just to not have to deal with all your [OT] content  |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:42 pm ] |
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Sold. |
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| Author: | Delos [ Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:38 am ] |
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Bu...bu...but! Meh. Why Tony, why!? [OT] is the life of this place you know. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:31 pm ] |
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and having Off Topic mod access sold is counter-productive to the said life. Someone might actually *gasp* start moderating threads here |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:13 pm ] |
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Tony, I'm pretty sure what you just said counts as some kind of blasphemy. |
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| Author: | rdrake [ Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:38 pm ] |
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md wrote: Such a baseless rumour; based on one blog post titled "Completely unsubstantiated rumour". I'm not entirely sure it'd be good for google to even consider it, given how much money youtube loses, and it's current spat of copyright troubles. You were saying? Check here. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:24 pm ] |
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there was an article about someoen saying its stupid to buy youtube or something.  |
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| Author: | md [ Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:02 pm ] |
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I seem to ahvebeen wrong; but I still think it's a bad move. Unless Google and crush the copyright infringement issues then it's still going to cause trouble. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:32 pm ] |
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well, I am sure Google knows what it is doing. |
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