Google Culture Creep At YouTube

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1. * Miss UNIVERSE
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 3:32 pm

   It would be cool to see pics from the founders of all the top social sites

   Digg, Techcrunch, Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo etc…

   Maybe this post could compile a collection

   Here is mine

2. Faramarz
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 3:44 pm

   Michael - Maybe you can post the facebook outfit you’re wearing? hehe j/k

3. Ed
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 3:49 pm

   @ Faramarz - Someone would have said it eventually, so nothing to feel bad about

4. cl8ton
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 4:01 pm

   In the message body:
   “changed their logos for holidays like famously Google does”

   The SNAP preview of Google shows Facebook! WhatUp? I just knew it!

5. Amit Chowdhry
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 4:18 pm

   Who heck is Marie Eve Bergeron-Tourangeau?

6. Alaska Miller
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 4:33 pm

   No one else is calling it ClownCo so no one would get the “joke”

7. Michael Arrington
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 4:41 pm

   sure they are. it was in brad stone’s article in the NY Times the other day.

8. Chuck
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 4:50 pm

   Unfortunately, the culture creep doesn’t end there.

   Just like AdSense insists on taking the visitor away from your site, rather than giving the publisher the option of launching a new window…so YouTube is now doing its best to grab the visitor and drag them from your site with the little tease previews.

   It will be interesting to see if any competitors find new ways to monetize videos and come back to beat YouTube at that game.

9. Overuse Bubble
   

   October 31st, 2007 at 7:01 pm

   Wow, the concept of customizing website logos for holidays was around way, way before Google.

10. goigoi
    

    October 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    I had already scrapping most famous sites’s hlidays logo!!

11. Natali Del Conte
    

    October 31st, 2007 at 8:34 pm

    Did you know that if you choose Street View in Google Maps today the little guy you move around is a witch? She even flies on a broom if you make her move from place to place. Its really cute.

    Happy Halloween!

12. Steve Ballmer
    

    October 31st, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    It was a sad day for the internet when Gaggle snuck and bought out YouTube, I hope they never become like those kids!

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

13. Alex H
    

    October 31st, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    God this is getting tiresome.

    Where’s Mark Hendrickson? His posts are for more informative than simple Hulu-bashing, Facebook-loving Arrington’s.

14. nemrut
    

    October 31st, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    Hey Mike, why not do a post on Shai Agassi’s new startup which just got ’seed funding’ to the tune of $200 macaroons.

15. micfo
    

    November 1st, 2007 at 2:39 am

    I never see Microsoft and Yahoo follows same culture.

16. Fake Mark Zuckerburg
    

    November 1st, 2007 at 5:31 am

    Techcrunch is reporting about changes in logo? Guys, get some real stories. This is lame. Must not be alot of stories out there for you to report on. Next you’re going to report on how they change their link colors.

17. California Condor
    

    November 1st, 2007 at 10:08 am

    @Fake Mark Zuckerberg (16),

    Actually, subtle details in user interfaces are important in web sites. These small details are some of the reasons why Google and Youtube are such awesome websites. You’d do your self a favor by paying attention.

18. Sam England
    

    November 2nd, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    There is a good collection of some halloween website logos from 2007 here…
    http://www.ivirtuaforums.com/2.....ure-t12506