Posts Tagged ‘Google video

Quick video of my last hike

Posted in Adventureson Mar 14, 2008

I’m just starting to learn how to take videos with my digital camera and place them on the Internet. Here is my latest experiment from my latest hike.

Tradition returned

Posted in Sportson Nov 18, 2006

Today BYU will become the Mountain West Conference football champions. All they have to do is beat New Mexico at home. To get psyched up, I went to Google Video to watch some clips. I’ve been in Oregon and haven’t seen but one game on TV and one game live, and I don’t think I fully realized just how talented of a team BYU really is. Amazing. I’ve been listening to the games from KSL.com, and I know the team is good. They are really good. Normally during the last home game of the season they present blankets or whatever to the seniors on the team after the game. This year they are honoring the seniors before the game. I think that is because they want to leave time after the game to announce the championship and the bid to the Las Vegas bowl.

While I was at Google Video, I came across some video of Men’s basketball from last year. Specifically the most amazing BYU comeback I’ve ever seen. I was there, live, in the Marriott Center. It was truly amazing. With just over a minute left, I might had even lost hope in a BYU win, but I was wrong, and I was amazed. I hate to admit it, but watching this clip (below) I almost got a little teary eyed. allergies I’m sure. Anyway, hopefully we will continue to be amazed through the winter with BYU basketball.

Google buys YouTube

Posted in Businesson Oct 16, 2006

It is interesting to note though that there is no post on any of Google’s blogs about the Google purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion (yes Marge, billion). I left this comment on another web site, and thought it might be of value here too:

And I am really confused with Google’s acquisition here. I don’t think we’ve seen Google do something like this before. Typically we only see Google purchases that get Google into a business. In this case, Google Video was an already existing competing product to YouTube with very similar technologies. Unless I’m missing something, YouTube has very little to offer Google with respect to technology. Video’s on YouTube have questionable ownership rights and so buying YouTube for the videos doesn’t make a lot of sense. YouTube is a fad, and so I think it would be disappointing for Google to dish out over a billion just for a name. What am I missing? What is really worth $1.6 billion that Google couldn’t do on its own?


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