YouTube top ten for 2006  Scenes from YouTube in 2006 Why suffer the pain of Australian Idol when you can become famous quickly on YouTube? Mark Leung, a 23-year-old Singaporean student studying in the United States, has been a member of YouTube for a year. During that time he has uploaded some 20 videos, only one of which qualifies as a hit. That video, Mark Leung's Crazy Computer Bug, has been viewed almost 6.5 million times since it was posted in January and still ranks in the top 20 of YouTube's most watched videos. And it runs for all of 11 seconds. Welcome to the world of YouTube (www.youtube.com), the hip, hot video-sharing site that during the past year has catapulted from the boondocks of the internet into penthouses to become the most powerful force in online video. So powerful in fact that, according to one measure, 58 per cent of all videos watched on the web are YouTube clips. With that kind of oomph, it's little wonder that Google last month forked out the breathtaking sum of $2.2 billion to buy out YouTube's founders. Fuelling this is the legion of talented amateurs - or amateurs who think they're talented - who see YouTube as a giant casting call. Get noticed here and doors can open for you, short-cutting years of toil and frustration in the badlands of creative anonymity. YouTube is now, arguably, the web's most buzzworthy site, courting controversy, amplifying trivialities and virally attracting a whole lot of eyeballs that even six months ago would not have glanced in its direction. Its monthly tally of 30 million viewers is the envy of many TV stations and it boasts an audience demographic to die for. In the digitally democratic world of YouTube anyone can watch almost anything, anytime - and soon, when its mobile service gets going, anywhere. Ask yourself: would I "normally" watch a clip of someone smashing a new $650 Sony PlayStation 3 to bits with a sledgehammer in front of a bunch of shoppers queuing to buy one of these sought-after gaming consoles? But when you notice that the clip has been watched 900,000-plus times in just one day, you cannot resist clicking Smash My PS3 just to see what all the fuss is about. Icon's mission is to sort through a vault of several million videos, which are being added to at the rate of almost one a second, and come up with a definitive list of YouTube's Greatest Hits for 2006. The list is a mixture of individual videos that have made waves and personalities whose cumulative output has contributed to what has been a memorable first full year of operation for the website. We've avoided clips taken from movies, television, music videos or anything too professional or commercial. The list is deliberately short on specific records because a) they change quickly and b) the measures of success are many, varied and subject to variable interpretation. In no particular order they are...  Be first to comment this article
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Nhiều người nói Zidane là cầu thủ “bác học” vì càng hói anh càng đá hay. Dưới đây là những khoảnh khắc đẹp nhất về đôi chân tài hoa số một trong lịch sử bóng đá châu Âu - danh thủ đã giải nghệ sau mùa hè 2006.