YOUTUBE LAUNCHES NINE GLOBAL SITES AMID WEB 2.0 WAVE OF EXPANSION

 
By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Maija Palmer in Paris
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
 
Some of the most successful members of the “Web 2.0” generation of consumer internet companies are racing to go global, in a wave of international expansion that echoes the outsized ambitions of the first wave of dotcoms from the US.

YouTube yesterday took the wraps off its first nine international sites, the first step in what executives say is a strategy to make it a local mainstay in dozens of countries and fend off copy-cats that have sprung up.


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YOUTUBE推出9个国际网站

 
英国《金融时报》理查德•沃特斯(Richard Waters)旧金山、迈亚•帕尔默(Maija Palmer)巴黎报道
2007年6月20日 星期三
 
“Web 2.0”一代最为成功的一些消费者互联网公司正纷纷走向全球，掀起了一波国际扩张浪潮，与美国第一轮互联网热潮时的勃勃雄心颇为相似。

昨天，YouTube公布了其首批9个国际网站。该公司高管们表示，其战略是让YouTube在几十个国家中成为当地的主要网站，并击败层出不穷的模仿者。这9个网站就是该战略的第一步。