Techvibes has been following the progress (and regress) Vancouver video start-up Totlol and it's Founder Ron Ilan over the past couple years.
Today on his blog Ilan threw in the towel after a two-year roller coaster ride. The final chapter of the Totlol story is worth a read but Ilan cuts to the chase and sums it pretty concisely here.
When the YouTube API team saw Totlol they liked it. At about the same time someone else at Google saw it, realized the potential it, and/or similar implementations may have, and initiated a ToS modification. An instruction was given to delay public acknowledgement of Totlol until the modified ToS where published. Later an instruction was given to avoid public acknowledgement at all.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a first step to fulfilling that mission,... [more]
Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. Totlol is in... [more]
Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a... [more]
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