GooTube; Because You Haven’t Had Enough
In case you’re just emerging from your cave Google has bought YouTube. Of course what takes people’s breath away is not just that Google has bought another hip company with the kids - it’s that they spent $1.65 billion to do so. Careful analysis here at the Militant Geek headquarters confirms that isn’t an amount you’re likely to find in your couch. Some perspective is needed, however. Just how much is $1.65 billion? With $1.65 billion you could buy:
- 47 sexy new F35 joint strike fighter planes
- an advertising slot on TechCrunch for 165,000 months (13,750 years - and you thought you were tired of Marshall Kirkpatrick now)
- 5,085,999 iPods, a few more than what is needed for iPac’s buy your Senator an iPod campaign
- 75,034,106 Hacktivist Ringer T-Shirts from a store I’ve heard of
- Sponsorship for 91,666,666 poverty stricken children for a month
For the record, Google’s already existing video service, Google Video, won’t be going away ever according to Pete Cashmore. Let’s here it for needless spending on redundancy!
