Social Media

This video is a bit cliche (with it’s “Right Here, Right Now” background music) but it contains some excellent statistics about the size and rapid growth of social media. It’s worth a watch.

Met Chad Hurley at YouTube HQ

430,000 visitors in four days!

YouTube Instant is clearly a hit among web users. Thanks for all the positive feedback! I look forward to supporting and improving YouTube Instant in the future. I hope to see it become a core part of the YouTube.com experience!

Visit YouTube Instant or read about the story.

Here’s a picture from my visit to YouTube HQ on Monday.

Feross Aboukhadijeh & Chad Hurley at YouTube HQ

Update: YouTube Instant received 1 million visitors in 10 days!

Tweet

Psh… Google Instant? I built YouTube Instant.

Check it out: YouTube Instant.

Why Is This Website Called Google?

Why is Google called Google? Apparently Google thinks I know the answer.

Google loves me. Don’t believe me?

Google loves me so much that they want me to explain why they call themselves Google. Out of over 32 million pages, Feross.org is the #1 result for the query “Why is this website called Google?” (click here to see for yourself!).

See!… they love ME! I told you! And Google chose my April Fools day prank to be #1, because they love my sense of humor, too! (or because the phrase “website called google” appears prominently in the title, but I bet its mostly the first reason).

Ahh… the mysteries of The Google.

Prediction

I want to make a prediction here. That this post that you are reading right now will become #1 for the same query “Why is this website called Google?” within ONE WEEK. If Google liked my off-topic April fools post so much, then they will surely love this post, perfectly titled and targeted for this query.

I will check back in one week and report on this prediction!
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Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?

I just read an interesting opinion column about technology illiteracy over at TidBITS. The author, Adam Engst, argues that as technology becomes easier to use and hence more transparent, society has lost the ability to converse about technology.
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