Chad Hurley Dances to Britney Spears
There can be no greater collision of dweeb with douche than the YouTube party at Tenjune. I witnessed the revolting coupling accidentally (I swear) last night. And there I saw a be-scruffed Chad Hurley jiggy himself to the dulcet tones of Britney Spears.
Almost as awkward as that one time I went to the Google Dance and saw a group of teenage googlers grinding to a live cover band's version of "Right Here, Right Now". True story. Wish it wasn't.
Sadly, I have no photo to confirm that I saw Chad's knee knockery (I did) after attending the sooper sekret YouTube Videocracy event (I did not). But Deep Focus' Ian Schafer attended, and reports that YouTube plans to offer:
- Active sharing -- actually already available; turn it on and your username shows up next to videos you're watching, and a list of watched videos appears in your profile.
- Updated video editing tools
- Video recommendations (like Amazon's recs)
- Analytics tools for marketers, so they can see where traffic to their videos is coming from.
YouTube's the new Nielsen.
