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KISS principle in MySpace and YouTube

May 13th, 2006

Cameron Olthuis points to a great article on Slate explores the reasons for popularity common to both MySpace and YouTube:

I’ve got a different theory. YouTube and MySpace are runaway hits because they combine two attributes rarely found together in tech products. They’re easy to use, and they don’t tell you what to do.

The article has very good points, but it’s interesting that the Google Video seems to have lost the game to YouTube even when there was a time when Google was the epithome of no nonsense, keep it simple principle.

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