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So I was looking for “tiger attacks” on YouTube. I watched 20 videos and I did not see any tiger attack. I saw a lot of noise, a lot of pixelated video, a lot of talk and a lot of misnamed videos. But I did 20 page views and 20 video views. So I contributed to the success of YouTube, even if I left half an hour later, unsatisfied.

There is a lot of crappy content on YouTube. Just like Google. A lot of seo, a lot of stupid folk, a lot of noise. Little good or useful content. And then some people wonder why hulu.com makes 80 million dollars a year with little content, while YouTube has millions and billions of videos and views…

I have an account on LinkedIn. I find it useful into tracking my old colleagues and friends.

Two days ago I got one on facebook, because it said I cannot access a user profile if I didn’t have an account. I signed up and…I still couldn’t see the profile, because I need to be friends with that person. Usability fail. Anyway, some people found me and added me as a friend, so I got mails with their requests. I got pulled back in into facebook. And I stuck around for a couple minutes. Way too much noise. The wall, the side notes, the tracking of people. Way too lazy for everything.

I think the internet has become a busy intersection. You want to get stuff done, read some news, check your email, see some gadgets or naked ladies, but you cannot move because of all the noise. Facebook, Twitter, SecondLife, FriendFeed and others I don’t know about…Lot of noise. Not getting much done and not advancing in technology, all because of the noise. Latest dumb thing? Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on my mobile. Because all I really wanted to do is watch those beautiful girls on a little screen.

It would be great if everybody could see it. And it would be even greater if it would clean up the web of spammy/seo sites. I would really love to see google get tough with it.

mobile.de, one of the most famous german auto market sites jsut had a facelift. From a simple site to a web2.0 design.

If you look at digg.com, you cannot overlook the amount of bullshit on the front page.

So, hearing that it raised another millions for whatever is pointless. That is not news, it’s PR. Digg will be a story when they will sell the site. Otherwise, it’s just a stupid site with stupid voters (do I have to point out that all voters are dumb?) doing everything to increase the price.