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Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar

• spoiledtechie 16y ago
  Which means that the YouTube CEO is scouring Hacker News.
  • mey 16y ago
    Which I hope wouldn't surprise anyone.
  • siculars 16y ago
    Scouring? Doubtful. Maybe he's just clicking around like everyone else.
  • tensafefrogs 16y ago
    Or, the link was shared within YouTube/Google quite a bit.
  • code_duck 16y ago
    Just like being a rock star, successful CEOs continue to be normal people, which is for some reason surprising to the public, and their former peers.
• jrockway 16y ago
  Why? Do you really think we are much different than Digg or Reddit? The main difference is that we value slightly longer comments. (But so does Slashdot, and they have a lot more users.)
  • code_duck 16y ago
    Longer comments, they are only LONGER? Slightly longer??
  • InclinedPlane 16y ago
    It's silly to think that technology makes the site. That's about as sensible as comparing books by their binding and type face.
  • wazoox 16y ago
    I know how he feels... Reddit has begun to suffer from a massive AOL effect, and he's afraid that the publicity may attract an unwelcome crowd here :)
• feross 16y ago
  Hi, I'm the author of YouTube Instant. Actually, I never "announced" this site anywhere. I posted a status update to some friends to get their feedback. They shared it and it spread from there. I woke up this morning to the sound of my phone ringing - a Washington Post blogger wanted to interview me. It's been a crazy day, to say the least.