Wow. Google agrees to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion.
I’m speechless … but others aren’t.
Mark Cuban at BlogMaverick: I still think Google is crazy :)
ZDNet: YouTube may add to Google’s copyright worries.
Silicon.com UK: YouTube ‘a good fit for Google’
Financial Times: How to get seriously rich in two easy moves
New York Times: A Slippery Slope of Censorship at YouTube
Here’s the chatter in the blogosophere. More than 230 postings on Slashdot.
What do YouTube’s users think of Google’s purchase? Hard to say, since there isn’t any way for them to express their views collectively on the YouTube site.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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