YouTube’s dancing Jawed, iLike’s music service, Veeker’s mobile splash
End-of-week roundup in Silicon Valley:
The YouTube jig, and lecture — Here’s a link to a lecture that Jawed Karim, the co-founder of video-sharing site YouTube gave this week. It is a history how YouTube got to where it did. GigaOm has a good summary.
The site’s founders suffered at first; they couldn’t get pretty girls to post videos, despite offering payment. But the site’s three co-founders hit the winning recipe in June 2005, Karim explains, when they… Continue Reading