Thursday, January 4

First squee!

2007 will surely bring us more squee than can be swallowed, so let's kick off the first squeeworthy moment of the year with my new favorite site.

We love YouTube. There's not a person out there that isn't fond of the slacking off at work and school possibilities it brings.

One can literally sit and waste an entire day by searching for various keywords...including ones that just don't make any darn sense, yet still are represented on the web. (Some are more successful than others, mind you.)

Need to find that old En Vogue video you haven't seen since 1995? Got it. Need to find that annoying Volkswagen commercial with the annoying song? Got it. Need the latest SNL episode? ...Don't got it.

Since Google, which er, owns Blogger, so I better mind my Ps and Qs, merged with YouTube, the climate of the site changed. People started caring about pesky little copyrights and ownership semantics. It was almost like the new Napster debate or something. However, let's all remember that we're dealing with viral STREAMING content. I can't save it to my desktop, old people. It's just helping you promote your stuff, so get over it.

In the spirit of...well, just not giving a crap, dailymotion.com works like YouTube, except with way more bizarre German videos of people in ill-fitting pants and full streaming episodes of your favorite TV shows. Yeah. The full 45 minutes. No 10-minute content caps!

Videos you can't normally locate on the web, you can find here, which is equally reminiscent of Napster's catalog back their prime.

So, give it a whirl, but be quick about it. Won't be around for long until THE MAN shuts it down!

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