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One of the recent YouTube outage messages.
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For a lot of users, the world of online video sharing begins and ends with YouTube. And, to a certain extent, it did for me too, up until a few months ago. Over the past few months YouTube seems to have become less and less compelling. In fact, I find myself using the site less and less and going to other upstart video sharing sites with greater frequency (like Dailymotion, Bolt, Guba and others).
Now I can't knock the success of YouTube. These guys pioneered simple, easy and addicting video sharing (the guys at iFilm and Atom Films must be kicking themselves that they missed out on YouTube's winning formula). And the fact that they were acquired in a $1.75B Google buyout speaks volumes.
BUT...
All this doesn't mean I'm going to stick around. Here are a few reasons why:
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