Just some amazing, amazing people in this world with some unbelievable talent.

YouTube – LOVE STORY (Taylor Swift) meets VIVA LA VIDA (Coldplay) – Piano Cello – by Jon Schmidt.

Streamy updated their blog for the first time in about two month.  Still no word of a release date yet, just announcing they’re launching a DV blog.  They did give this tidbit,

As we open up the new year, we will make new announcements regarding Streamy, its features, products, and, of course, the planned launch.  Check in regularly for news.

For right now, I’m using Google Reader.  The best part of Reader is the share option so that others can see your recommended rss feeds.  The ability to share and post from anywhere on the web via their javascript shortcut makes sharing easy.  The Google Reader blog has a great video for those that want to start using it.  Once you start using it, you won’t be able to live without it:

I don’t know if Streamy will be able to pull me away from Google Reader if/when it does decide to launch.  I think it’s expected right before Duke Nukem Forever goes gold.

Finally. I was browsing some videos today and noticed something a bit different,

They’ve finally made their videos widescreen.  This is more than likely in preparation to begin offering full-length movies like Hulu does.  But they spin it like this,

We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience.

Don’t be fooled though.  They likely would have kept dragging their feet had reports like this and this not come up.  Hulu and other sites are making some ground and taking viewers away from YouTube.

YouTube isn’t being threatened by any means.  But the profitability of Hulu has shown them that their business model needs a little tweaking.  If you don’t provide a service people want, someone else will.  And they’ll likely do it better and put a damper on your business.

Kind of a creepy video with Batman and Robin painted on a guy’s face.  The Big Boy one in his stream could be scarier.