Youtube Named Times Person of the Year 2006

[Datruth]

It's official, and on Monday you can buy a copy of Time Magazine to read the article behind it.

It has the youtube background for vids, pause button, full screen, all that, but instead of a video, there is a foil like box in the center, with the youtube frame around it.

At the top it says Times person of the year 2006
And at the bottom it states plainly, You.

Youtube has changed the information age, and allows user generated content.
It's search functions Rival Google and it's power is seen with the demise of a senator for his meckack remark.

Steve and Chad, have revolutionized the world. Entertainement on a new level.
The power is in your hands.

I'm glad to say I was on the Youtube Bandwagon, Wayyy before it was ever popular.
I hope now you will all join me.

Sincerely,

~~Datruth

[zanzibar]

Youtube is in no way, shape, or form any sort of revolutionary identity.  The revolution happened over a decade ago.  The only thing special about youtube is that it's well known.

[Datruth]

Youtube is in no way, shape, or form any sort of revolutionary identity.  The revolution happened over a decade ago.  The only thing special about youtube is that it's well known.

Time magazine disagrees with you.

I suggest you pick up a copy of the magazine on monday.

And i also have a feeling you don't use youtube, those who haven't used the computer, never understood it's power.

That same is true with youtube.

User generated information, voted on, favorited, vloged, spoken about, and featured, has won the time's greatest achievement.

~~Datruth

~~~~~Edit:

A man running for senator, lost his senate seat because of it.

The majority agree, had he not made his racist statement, and had it not traveled on youtube, he would be in our U.S senate today.

The power in that... is amazing.

[zanzibar]

Time magazine disagrees with you.

Because they're stupid.

I suggest you pick up a copy of the magazine on monday.

Why should I?

And i also have a feeling you don't use youtube, those who haven't used the computer, never understood it's power.

I've used youtube hundreds and hundreds of times, not to upload stuff though.

That same is true with youtube.

Except that I've used youtube, and I understand why people think it's so powerful.  It's just that I think such opinions lack historical perspective.

User generated information, voted on, favorited, vloged, spoken about, and featured, has won the time's greatest achievement.

Such things have been around since long before Youtube hit the net.

A man running for senator, lost his senate seat because of it.

A lot of stuff has been changed through Youtube.  However, Youtube isn't revolutionary.

The majority agree, had he not made his racist statement, and had it not traveled on youtube, he would be in our U.S senate today.

Are you saying that before Youtube, people were not able to share information via the net?

[Datruth]

Please, explain to me how youtube is not revolutionary my friend  

Tell me any website, that was around, before youtube, that did everything youtube does.

Please.. if such a website exists, that revolutionised us, explain to me where it can be found.

The way you speak, and the words you say, are as if youtube is a redo.... whom and what is it redoing that's done so well?

~~Datruth

[emeraldfool]

Tell me any website, that was around, before youtube, that did everything youtube does.
~~Datruth

Try typing 'www.google.com' into the address bar.

[Datruth]

Tell me any website, that was around, before youtube, that did everything youtube does.
~~Datruth

Try typing 'www.google.com' into the address bar.

If google, is the same as youtube... and youtube didn't revolutionize anything.

Than why did google feel like it needed to buy youtube?

Google, does not provide videos with a community, feedback systems, favoriting, your own channels, NONE of that.

Even after Youtube, people tried to copy, like Google video, but they failed.

Google video is shutting down soon, google now owns youtube and will use it's resources there.

Google, and Youtube, are two different brands.

Two brands that would be the same would be like Google buying ask.com

Google would never buy ask.com..... why? Because they are 99% equal.

Google bought youtube, and for 1.6 billiion, because it was revolutionary, and it provided a niche that wasn't there before.

An internet media, by the people, and for the people, NO ONE has done that before.

~~Datruth

[ThomPhoenix]

The Times person of the year is actually "You", to represent all bloggers, community websites and videowebsites who contribute to the "digital democracy".

Picture

* ThomPhoenix mumbles something about "read before you post".

[bilbous]

"For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is you," the magazine's Lev Grossman wrote.

The magazine has put a mirror on the cover of its "Person of the Year" issue, released on Monday, "because it literally reflects the idea that you, not us, are transforming the information age," Editor Richard Stengel said in a statement. 

^Reuters

It is not YouTube, it is you ... whole Web 2.0 thingy.


They must be really hurting for subscribers to pander so blatantly to their customers

[Datruth]

The Times person of the year is actually "You", to represent all bloggers, community websites and videowebsites who contribute to the "digital democracy".

Picture

* ThomPhoenix mumbles something about "read before you post".

At the top it says Times person of the year 2006
And at the bottom it states plainly, You.

I watched the Cnn documentery about this, i listened to the person who actually choose the person of the year, and he said that it was youtube that had won, it's idea, what it does.

Him describing the age of technology and sharing and content of videos is good and all, and i'm all for it, but youtube was the inspiration for it all.

Without youtube, this cover would not exist.

OH and thom... try reading my post before you post, i know about the picture, i saw it last night already, no need to remind me.

The you, plainly is a play on the phrase Youtube, If you haven't noticed, look around the reflective thing... what do you see?

Did anyone else watch Cnn's documentery about this, i should go check youtube to see if it's there 

Yes it means i'm breaking some laws.... do i care... not really.

~~Datruth

[Parallo]

From abc news...

Dec. 17, 2006 — According to Time magazine, you are the person of the year.

Yes, you, along with everyone else in the "digital democracy" blew other contenders, including North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and President Bush, out of the water (though both made it into the magazine's list of "People Who Mattered.")

* Parallo agrees with ThomPhoenix.

[Karyuu]

I'm getting the urge to post about a rice-bag.

[bilbous]

Do tell Kary, is it a nice bag?, for a rice bag that is...

Anyone else think this whole mirror thing is a little unoriginal

[Radiant Memphis]

Minute rice, Uncle Bens or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OwOQMf_C-Q

[Xordan]

ThomPhoenix is correct. Time magazine only cited YouTube... along with other sites like Facebook, MySpace and Wikipedia. So it wasn't YouTube who won, it really was "You".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6187113.stm so says the BBC too.

I also think that YouTube wasn't anything revolutionary. No more than wikipedia, and I'd say less than wikipedia. Certainly it was evolution using the increasing speed available to users of the web and mainly a good business idea.