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YouTube, Back In The Day

After Jay Leno and staff showed some of their favorite YouTube videos on his show, Mick Bianchi, a fan of the home-made video site, made this tribute to the boys, girls and 79-year-old British widower of YouTube.

It's longish - just under 10 minutes - but sorta sweet, as normal folks (and not actors playing normal folks) peacock for the camera, explore their late-night worries, shave their heads, kiss, stretch their moments of fame. (The lingering kiss and one brief underpants dance are a little unsafe for work.)

The video might become important to historians down the road when people are trying to remember back when YouTube was folk art - before Burbank got its hands on it.

As "januthin"  wrote in response to the Leno clip:

Right now youtube is about normal people sharing their videos. Soon it will be about watching rich people's videos, just like on TV. Those of us who were attracted to youtube because of how it was are upset.

Speaking of which ...

Word is continuing to whip around of a big-name media company in acquisition talks with YouTube. Techcrunch reports, based on a conversation with a New York Post writer, that YouTube is willing - if someone come up with about $1.5 billion. (Which would be cheaper than what Facebook is said to be going for.)

Techcrunch reports that the service is showing more than 100 million videos a day - 65,000 new movies uploaded every day. The piece does a good job showing the looming threats posed by copyright woes.