AllThingsD » Guam http://allthingsd.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:31:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Conan O'Brien's Angry YouTube Rant http://allthingsd.com/20100517/conan-obriens-angry-youtube-rant-and-his-five-favorite-youtube-videos/ http://allthingsd.com/20100517/conan-obriens-angry-youtube-rant-and-his-five-favorite-youtube-videos/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 12:00:42 +0000 Peter Kafka http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=19539 YouTube is celebrating its fifth birthday by announcing that it is now generating a staggering two billion views per day. Context: In October, Google’s (GOOG) video site announced it had crossed the one billion views per day mark.

That’s a lot of videos! As usual, no word on financials, profitability, etc. But there is plenty of congratulatory back-slapping here and here.

Best part, by far: A brief anniversary message from Conan O’Brien, in which the comedian connects YouTube’s rise with America’s decline: “Nobody actually makes anything anymore. We’re all watching monkeys in propeller hats flush themselves down a toilet. And that’s why India is kicking our ass. And China, and pretty much everyone else. Switzerland, kicking our ass. Guam, way ahead of us.”

And he effectively sums up Web economics, or lack thereof:
“That’s not the point of the internet. It’s not to make money. It’s for someone you’ve never met, who’s a nerd, in Palo Alto, to make money.”

O’Brien also offers up his five favorite YouTube clips. Here are four of them. To see the fifth (something inscrutable and German) you’ll have to visit the site. If you’re time-pressed, definitely go with the cat.

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]]> http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them/feed/ 0 The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It's From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir, Redux http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them-2/ http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them-2/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:05:52 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=3902 Who would have thought that a search company that began as a Ph.D. research project back in 1996 would someday become a behemoth of such bandwidth-consuming appetite that it would require its own high-bandwidth undersea communications cables? Earlier this year, Google revealed that it had joined a six-company consortium to build a new multi-terabit undersea cable linking the U.S. and Japan. And now it appears the company is planning at least two more. According to TeleGeography, Google (GOOG) is part of another consortium of carriers hoping to build an intra-Asian submarine cable system that would connect Japan with Guam, the Philippines island of Luzon, Hong Kong, southern Thailand and Singapore. The company is also said to have held exploratory discussions with a number of South African telecoms about jointly building another new subsea cable connecting to Africa. Why such interest in undersea optic cables? Google would likely claim the volume of data it needs to move around the world requires the kind of capacity they provide. But there’s another reason as well. Fast, reliable connectivity encourages people to use the Internet more. And that’s good for Google’s overall business. “Google wants people to pay as little as possible for access,” a source familiar with the company’s plans told ITWeb. “In fact, they don’t really care if it is totally free, because it is good for them in the long run.”

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