Google, Youtube and my other thoughts

Well as you probably heard by now, Google has bought youtube for a 1billion.  Wow! thats a lot of dough.  Web 2.0 seems to be very big business.  Now you know why I’m trying to get into it.  I hear that yahoo is trying to buy facebook for 1.6 billion.  Well I wonder how users of youtube are going to react.  I feel that there will be some type of backlash, expecially if Google changes any of the features.  Which could very well happen with all the copyright issues that youtube will soon face.  But all in all it looks like a good move for both sides, the owners of youtube are rich and have Google to help with copyright issues and Google now has a foothold in the file sharing industry.  Now, why Yahoo would spend a bil on facebook seems a little strange to me. I mean, yes facebook has a lot of members, but how is it worth 1.6 billion?

AJ and the goals

My partner in Sweetsecond.com is AJ. AJ is a very smart guy and has a lot of great ideas. As promised earlier here are the short term goals. 1) Drive as much traffic to the site as possible 2) Make the site as sticky as possible 3)Get a ton of members to sign up so we can start making some noise in the industry. I did some reasearch and found a couple of websites that divorced singles frequent on a regular basis. Both are divorce related. (Big surprise). I’ve decided that once I finish optimizing the site that I will advertise on these sites. As well as the advertising, I’m going to try to utilize social bookmarking sites as much as possible. I’ve already added the site to stumbleupon.com and I will soon start sending articles and blog post to reddit.com. I am very exciting about the whole process and I believe that soon things will start to turn.