YouTube is an astounding platform with a remarkable social relevancy that many people over ... 25? or so probably don't appreciate. Even more astounding is the

YouTube is an astounding platform with a remarkable social relevancy that many people over ... 25? or so probably don't appreciate. Even more astounding is the degree to which google consistently drops the ball in regard to its development. Much of its success has come in spite of, rather than because of, major changes and "features" google has made to the site. Partly that's because of google's almost pathological inability to develop a real product or to manage a serious customer relationship (where the end-users are also the customers, rather than the merchandise). At this point I hope merely that google doesn't do anything that inadvertently destroys whatever magic is happening at youtube before a diversified field of real competition exists elsewhere.