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Youtube is really hottest internet video sharing site globally.

If you are not familiar with Youtube, please visit www.youtube.com at your spare time. Because it is based on interesting Flash player technology for streaming & playing video, it play well without any warning or password windows through your company firewall.

Most of contents are uploaded by users.(That's Mashup! That's UCC:User Created Content) You can find many popular video clips without appropriate copyright and size limit but there are many unique and interesting amateur films. Most interesting phenomena about Youtube is that it is beloved by many young as well. It is popular among people who lives out side of US. In Japan, over 2 million Japanese internet users visited there at March 2006. It is 5.2% market penetration.(US is 5.4%). Even though there is no regional service yet, it attracts more and more people globally.

Some says it is good model to explain "Long tail". It may be not big major block buster at all, enough mass to be noticed. It might not be able to kill TV but share some yummy portion of pie along with DVB-/H,DMB or IPTV. It is also attractive for Bloggers. You can easily link video to your blog by copy&paste HTML code generated from Youtube.

Sustainable & profitable business model is still unclear question in there business plan. But thanks to VC like Sequoia Capital who recently invest on Youtube, we may enjoy it free for a while. Youtube might find a heaven in advertisement as Google did. If they decide to insert a preroll or banner in video clip, it is hard to avoid. Report from Online Publishers Association said "Video Ads: The Shorter The Better, But Many Viewers Accept Long Ads". Around 39% answered 30 sec or more longer Ads is acceptable.

Otherwise, thanks to Youtube boom, many talented amateur comedian in the world , documentary film artist and digital camera/camcorder owners who want share their baby first walking with grandparents can have big benefit and find an useful way of promoting talent and sharing media. Nowadays sharing some images is not a big deal so you don't need help from FLICKR always but sharing a minute of video is totally different level of problem in term of bandwidth.

SO WHAT?
Many interesting youtube clips are made by PC camera cost less than $30 not by $1500 Sony camcorders. But I believe mobile phone can be a best tool for it. Problem is how an user can upload a video to video distribution channel such as Youtube without hassle. Mobile carrier may provide an incentive or discounted packet cost for uploader and share profit from downloaders. On opposite side, latest mobile phone is actually good video player already but you need to be a millionaire to enjoy video downloading freely from your network. Synching with PC is still and only reasonable way. Last mile between mobile phone and internet seems still bigger than in PC space.

Anyway, I think it could be good candidate for 3G killer apps instead of face to face video conference call. Why don't we have some hope.

Here is some funny clips I found from Youtube.All clips are really silly and amateur but it is good to see happy people for me without understanding their language at all.

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Philippines Lip Sync Guys
14 years old Asian boy living in US
Two Korean Girls in Karaoke Booth
24years old drunken Jabarca
Dr.Reck in Japan
A guy with sunglass
A gangster wannabe German boy

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