Bored student creates Instant Youtube
A BORED Stanford University student who created an instant version of Youtube was surprised when he got a letter from a Youtube boss offering him a job.
Youtube, which is owned by Google, spends millions of dollars on development but somehow failed to see that Google's Instant software could be applied to Youtube.
Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh created a real-time search engine for Youtube videos. Aboukhadijeh released the software by showing it off on Y Combinator's Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit. It behaves much the same way Google Instant does. When a user types in the video they are looking for, the engine guesses the video and begins playing it immediately.
