YouTube?s Video Poker: For millions of Internet users, the site that opened to the public less than a year ago [YouTube.com] provides a daily fix of odd and interesting video clips, from White House speeches to frat house pranks. [...]
There are several hundred video sharing sites. But YouTube took off quickly. Its technology was simple and easy to use. In addition, it tapped into the rapid growth of MySpace. YouTube developed a system that would allow anyone to insert a video directly onto a Web page.