Youtube’s Desperation

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7 pointsprakash4 comments

It must be noted that Cuban has been writing highly speculative, badly spelled rants about Youtube since well before they got acquired. Most of his claims, including the one that Google would get "sued to oblivion" if they bought Youtube, never panned out. He clearly has an agenda on this, and has been wrong all along; there's no reason to listen to him now.

For a laugh, see http://blogmaverick.com/2006/09/17/the-coming-dramatic-decli... and http://blogmaverick.com/2006/12/27/ripping-on-gootube-again2...

Agreed when it comes to online streaming video, Mark Cuban is belligerent, and just plain wrong. Maybe this touches a cord, having founded the massively overvalued Broadcast.com ( where is that now? yahoo video? ).

But on any subject other than online video, I love Cuban, his blog, and his excellent basketball team.

Oh, I don't dispute that he's usually thought-provoking and often right on other topics. When I said "most of his claims haven't panned out," I meant most of his claims about Youtube.

You also have to like the fact that Cuban sold at the right time.

Broadcast.com now points to yahoo.com, probably the most expensive re-direct in history.

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