Memo to Chad Hurley: Sell YouTube, You Moron

ByNalts July 25, 2006December 20, 2009

The New York Post ‘s Tim Arango reports that YouTube could go for a billion dollars. Chad Hurley, YouTube founder, could make $400 million in the transaction.

These YouTube guys haven’t paid a bit of attention to my rants since I’ve been blogging about them for the past 6 months. But trust me in that Chad Hurley will be the Internet’s poster child for morons if he doesn’t sell right now.

YouTube is wonderful pre-Internet-bubble puffery, and the big media companies want a piece of the online video space. YouTube is white hot, with the largest share of the online video pie and constant media coverage. No business model proven, and major copyright issues ahead.

Sell, Chad. In about 3 months you’ll be grateful for a tenth of that. I don’t know a lot, but I know two things well… entrepreneurship and online video. Trust me on this one.

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You’ve Stressed Daisy Whitney Out

ByNalts September 4, 2008

Now you’ve done it. You’ve stressed poor Daisy Whitney out with your provocative comments on my recent post. Look at the poor thing- she’s changed her hair, and the out takes reveal a near panic attack at the end. I’m going to have to invite her to do a YouTube collab with Uncle Nalts to…

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“Bore Me” Video Contest

ByNalts January 16, 2007

I’ve done videos asking people to submit videos. But never before have I received so many responses. Yesterday at Starbucks I invited people to send 30-second videos in which they did their best to bore me. I got nearly 50 boring responses, some creative ones and a few hysterical ones. The prize I offered was…

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Bed Bugs Are Pooping on Your Pillow

ByNalts August 28, 2006

So this guy at work tells me that 10% of the weight of an old pillow is Bed Bug feces. It grosses me out. Then I figured I’d “pay it forward” by getting you a little worried. As you lay your head to rest tonight, know you’re joined by thousands of bed bugs who are…

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Double Dream “Paws” Cat

ByNalts April 13, 2011

Remember Mark Day? Showing he still cares, he’s jumped on the Double Dream Hands wave with a cat. It’s a rather perfect formula, and an irresistibly inviting thumbnail even before I knew it was Mark’s cat. Cats sell, kids. Forget what your marketing teachers ever told you about cows. To recap the “Double Dream Hands”…

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YouTube Color Coding (video)

ByNalts November 11, 2010November 12, 2010

Here’s a video about YouTube color coding to enable search of related video content. It’s kinda cool. Test this and other “Google Lab” pilots on YouTube (here). It’s called TestTube.

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