YouTube is perhaps the most famous Web 2.0 success story, being one of the most valuable and most popular websites today. Naturally, many companies want to have similar success, but I’m just amazed how many services exist with only minute differences from one another.
This is most evident if you look on a site such as Allfg.org, which gets video from various sites. Today, I have viewed videos from Dailymotion, YouTube and Veoh. It is worth noting that YouTube doesn’t have many full length TV episodes on, while the only use sites like Dailymotion have is… TV episodes.
So many YouTube clones exist today, and its amazing that they all actually get used. I could create a list a page long full of YouTube clones, but I think I shall only write a few. Revver, Google Video, AOL’s UnCut Video, Yahoo! Video, OuOu, Vimeo and the list goes on.
It’s so easy to steal an idea which already exists. Web 2.0 start-ups should try to produce innovative products, instead of simply taking someone’s innovation. Still, stealing ideas doesn’t seem to damage your Alexa rank:
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True, somebody needs new ideas. I have the one where we can all consolidate our left over hosting space and use it to store all our crap and let other people join in. Alas, nobody will help me
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