From Concept to Hyper-growth: Click here to view a fantastic video about the creation and early days of YouTube from the quiet co-founder, Jawed Karim. This is a University lecture he did on the 21 October. It is 50 mins long and required viewing for anyone interested in the process of creating an internet company.
Tobias and Christoffer hope you listen and learn. Although the world will probably have changed when you enter the business world, I would like to hope that you could be just a fraction as successful as the YouTube guys.
People are already searching the the next YouTube. One candidate could be outside.in.
Yesterday Boing Boing reported that Steven Johnson has published a new book The Ghost Map, a scientific thriller about an 1854 cholera outbreak on London’s Broad Street in Soho. The Ghost Map celebrates cartography in the context of neighborhood knowledge, the wisdom about a place that can only come from living there.
Now Steven has brought that same theme alive in today’s world of Google mash-ups and location-enhanced computing through outside.in.
outside.in is a tool for participating in the online conversations taking place about your community within your community. After you locate yourself on a map, real-time blog posts, reviews, and news relevant to that area appear. Drag the map and the content changes. The system draws from a wide variety of placeblogs, user-contributed links, and tagged neighborhood data. All of that hyperlocal information is then aggregated together and linked to the physical places where the news matters most.
So far it only appears to be working for selected areas in the US.
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As an experiment, we are trying out www.itsyourstage.com to prove if the youtube craze is for real. We'll find out soon!
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