1) In my opinion this story is very critical to those under the employment of youtube. To them it may seem unfair that MTV is suddenly bringing up all these things to do with music. However it does not seem too important. Youtube has more or less of the time recieved excellent viewings and I dont think that will effect their current ratings just because of MTV and MTV2. I mean sure they may contain music profiles, videos and updates but OYutube is one of the most popluar sites for movies and such and I do not think it will effect the ratings in any way. But that is just my personal opinion. MTV has been out of the category for “music” for a while now and I do not think that since they have created a new channel it will affect Youtube and its ratings. Youtube is safe! I watch movies on Youtube all the time and I find no reason to cange now and I am sure teens all over the globe contain the same attitude when it comes to this situation.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-mtv-smacks-youtube-posts-almost-every-music-video-ever.html

2) The second story I read is saying that Youtube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video’s URL. It’s pretty surprising that this functionality wasn’t available earlier. This is quite helpful so that now people can send a URL to their friends and other users in order for them to view a movie at a certain part instead of having their friends/other users searching for that one part of a film. In my opinon it is not a very big advance or change but it sure is benenficial.It will affect me in the way of making things a sure lot easier when and more enjoyable when it comes to viewing and sharing videos on Youtube.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-videos/

3) The third story I read states the 7 reasons why the iPhone is a smash hit. It also states that Apple’s iPhone is not only a game changer but a certifiable hit. I think that the iPHone was an excellent creation in the cellular phone world. It advances technology in a whole new way. The iPhone allows you to surf the web, hold and play music just as an iPod does, and the main feature: phone others!! Other reasons that the Iphone is such a smash hit are:

- Since its release on July 11th, Apple sold 6.892 million 3G iPhones in the quarter, bringing the total number of iPhones sold so far to 12.992 million. Many of the new phones were sold to first-time buyers.

-If Apple didn’t defer the iPhone revenue, the iPhone sales would have accounted for about 39 percent of the adjusted total quarterly revenues. Jobs put the number at $4.6 billion.

-The iPhone will be sold in 70 countries by end of this year. It is currently sold in 51 countries

-By revenues, Apple is now the 3rd largest mobile phone maker behind Nokia and Samsung, ahead of Sony & LG Electronics. Samsung had revenues of $5.9 billion and it seems beatable

-iPhone is outselling RIM. Jobs kept hammering on that point during the conference call

http://gigaom.com/2008/10/21/7-reasons-why-iphone-is-a-smash-hit/