Wednesday, December 14, 2011

YouTube Redesign Herds Those Funny Cats - NYTimes.com

Excerpt from an overview of YouTube’s latest redesign

In place of that free-for-all will be a new YouTube, more commercial, more predictable and, its owners hope, more televisionlike. The underlying reason is money, of course, but the immediate issue is control. By cutting away the user-driven underbrush and shepherding viewers, especially those with YouTube accounts, toward TV-like content channels — an increasing number of them produced by corporate media partners — YouTube and its owner, Google, will gain more control by giving amateur videographers less exposure and funneling viewers toward fewer choices.

YouTube Redesign Herds Those Funny Cats - NYTimes.com

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