Should YouTube win an Eddy?
Macworld gave YouTube an Eddy this week. My reaction: WTF? Why award a prestigious Mac-related award to a website that’s not specifically Mac related and is poorly designed on top of that?
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one puzzled by this so MacWorld has posted a little editor debate arguing each side of the issue. Needless to say, I’m with robg on this one.
Besides the points made in that article, I’d add that there are other services that do the same thing better (for example, YouTube’s cooperate overlords at Google Video; which allows easy downloading of videos for computer, iPod, or PSP). It would seem to me that reasons for YouTube’s popularity was because of the degree to which the service turned a blind eye to copy-writed content.