Back when YouTube was a little (expensive money hemorrhaging) startup, it was hosted by ServerBeach, a subsidiary of Peer 1. YouTube was a difficult account as its size grew, requiring manual invoicing, but when the company finished transitioning its servers to Google’s data centers in November, the ServerBeach folks sent this sarcastic video to YouTube’s founders, who thought it was so funny, it had to be uploaded to YouTube.
Google’s Orkut has started accepting social applications, letting the first OpenSocial app developers submit their apps for use by 50 million Orkut users. The completed apps must be submitted by Friday in order to be ready when the apps are rolled out to users later this month. Interested developers can participate in Orkut Hackathons Thursday and Friday in the Googleplex, and via teleconference in Google New York.
