Quoted: In the age of YouTube, consuming alcohol in front of a video camera is often a prelude to public humiliation across multiple time zones. But for Gary Vaynerchuk, drinking on-air has so far yielded only glory.

An interesting way to look at it.

Quoted: Did the YouTube deal pay for itself? At least for one week it did.

Cuban is already weighing in on the Google / YouTube deal.

Quoted: Well, I'm ready for that too. I went ahead and registered www.effingreat.com because thats how much fun its going to be using Filesanywhere.com features to support a "load everything you own and share it with world" website.

Big, big news.

Quoted: Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, agreed to buy YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion, adding the largest video-sharing site on the Web and an audience that watches more than 100 million clips a day.

Quoted: The Wall St. Journal is reporting this morning that those talks are in fact underway, according to “a person familiar with the matter.”

Let's say you're a music executive. YouTube and Myspace promote your content to the most valuable demographic, and at ZERO cost to you. What do you do? Do you send them a letter of thanks? Invite them to your headquarters for a cocktail party?

Apparently not if you're UMG:

Quoted: YouTube's policy is apparently not enough to appease UMG, as Morris says that the label believes "these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars."

Good riddance record labels, it was fun while you lasted.

If so -- it's quite a flash!

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Quoted: According to music website Project Opus, the Recording Industry Association of America has sent cease-and-desist letters to YouTube users, demanding that said videos be removed ...

YouTube has a great sense of humor :)

Quoted: Share your videos with friends and family