American Psycho (Sarah Goldberg American Idol audition)

This video of this American Idol reject(Sarah Goldberg) is funny and scary.. and funny, and scary.. Could you image her being your girlfriend or wife? She should probably be put on some watch-list or investigated immediately if not sooner.

Anyway, enjoy and watch all the way through:

Google to acquire YouTube.. NO WAY! Lets beat it into the ground

Ugh.. Everyone knows that Google is to acquire YouTube. Well here come the tons and tons of pointless articles as to why this is: good for Google and good for YouTube, bad for Google and bad for YouTube, good for YouTube but bad for Google, good for Google and bad for YouTube… and why the world as we know it will just end.

Here are a few dozen examples: Digg search
And a “round-up” from John Battelle.

Digg Adds Video Screenshot Preview For All Digg Video Submissions

Ever click on a Digg video submission and regret it 5 seconds later? Well those 5 seconds will no longer be in limbo with the new Video Screenshot Preview Digg has JUST added. To the right every video submission there will be a screenshot for your viewing pleasure. Want to see how it works? Take a look:

From the Digg Blog:

Starting today, all newly submitted videos from YouTube and Google will include static thumbnail previews. Support for Yahoo! videos is coming soon.

This feature is a great addition to Digg, and we here at Ibloggedthis expect for other social bookmarking sites to pick up on this nifty idea. Reddit has a major need for this, and hopefully they will be man enough to copy Digg.

A Look Into Youtube’s Office (Picture)

The top story right now on Digg is a camera phone picture of Youtube’s offices. Here is what the poster said,

A co-worker of mine had a meeting at various sites last Friday, one of which was YouTube. They snapped a camera phone picture upon entering the less than overwhelming office, and send it to the company Where.com wall. A larger office will probably come after the inevitable acquisition.

Here is the picture:

Honestly I love this picture, it truly shows what the business is all about. Who needs fancy offices? Who needs painted walls? It is about the coding, development, marketing, and scaling! Obviously, when/if Youtube gets bought out the offices will improve, but untill then I am personally satisfied with the current situation.

YouTube user giving away 100 webcams

A YouTube user, Renetto - One of our favorites - is giving away 100 webcams for free to YouTube users that need them. That’s right. He has taken it upon himself to help YouTube build a respectable community that will help it grow.

To enter his contest which will run for 30 days, users must find a way to respond to his video with a video of their own. The problem is that people in need of a webcam probably don’t have one. So he is asking them to find a way, any way possible to make a video. Borrow a camera, use your camera phone, take a bunch of stills, animate them and write a letter.. be creative, any way you can.

Renetto will pick the 100 people who try the hardest and need a webcam the most, and he will send them a free web camera.

Sure, he might be a little nutty and not everyone exactly likes him, but you just have to respect how committed and determined he is to make YouTube a better place.

Here is the video. Good luck if you enter.

Cracking the YouTube Code

YouTube, the biggest video sharing service online, seems to randomly select a frame within the video which users upload to use as the image or “poster” of your video… Or so people thought! A YouTube user, renetto, has figured out exactly which frame YouTube grabs, so now you can always select what image you want to represent your YouTube video.

It seems that instead of a random frame within your movie, YouTube selects the frame which is right in the middle of your video. So, for example, if your YouTube video which you just uploaded is 120 seconds long, YouTube will automatically grab a frame from the 60th second mark which will become the face of your video.

Check out Renetto’s YouTube video discovery here:

Like Renetto says, YouTube should allow users to select which frame or image they wish their movie to be represented by.

YouTube Bigger Than Myspace

Most people felt that Myspace would eventually fall off of the top of the “social networking” world. The thing is, those people felt that the fall would take some time. Well, those people are wrong:

The video sharing site has taken a 3.9% share of global internet visits a day compared with 3.35% for MySpace, according to internet analysis company Alexa.

Source

As shocking as those results are, it makes some sense. Video will always beat text (see Television versus the Newspaper). Even though Myspace offers users complete freedom and a gigantic network of people, youtube simply brings entertainment value. There is no site on the Internet quite like Youtube when it comes to “content.” Untill another site provides the public with ridiculous video critics, dancing babes, and street fights, Youtube should remain on top.

Top 10 Web 2.0 Logo Collage

1. Stumble Upon
2. Image Shack
3. Flock
4. Technorati
5. 9rules
6. Rocketboom
7. Youtube
8. Ze Frank
9. Firefox
10. Feedburner

This list is in no particular order, because we here at Ibloggedhits appreciate any and every logo. It is up to you, the readers, to vote for who you believe has the best logo in the comments section.