Web 2.0 - YouTube: The Good, the Bad...

So we are all talking about Web 2.0 and listening to people spout social networking. What are we really talking about here? To demonstrate what we are talking about, I went to YouTube.com and did a search for "millennium hotels" to see what I would get. In deference to Clint Eastwood, I will classify them as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

The Good

"Britain's Best Breaks: Glasgow: Millennium Hotel Glasgow"
Wow! A professionally produced video on YouTube!

A very pleasant surprise. Obviously video was done by an OTA and uploaded by www.britainsbestbreaks.tv - This is the kind of video that we want.


"Love Train" at Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles

Not sure if the singing is considered "good", but it does show what how nice the banqueting hall is at the hotel. wow!


View from Millennium UN Plaza New York

This is barely "good". It starts out ok with a city view from the bedroom. Nice! The we go shaky cam and start going back and forth. Then he sweeps inside the room (um..ok). Then he switches to night city shots (urgh!) and then some music starts. He put some work into editing this thing, but looks like he needs more lessons.


"New York East River view from Millennium Hotel"

This is probably the best of amateur videos that I have found on Millennium. The guy takes an outside view and pans steadily and slowly so that you could see things. He even puts in mix music: "Music: Bebel Gilberto "Ceu Distante" remixed by DJ Spinna". But alas later in the end, he tries to be artistic: comes into the room and pans the interior.. shaky cam. Nothing's perfect.


The Bad

"Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles"
This guy starts his description with: "There's dead bodies in the walls.."

He starts out ok with proper titles for the movie and all. Then you suddenly realizes that he is illegally go through the innards of the hotel where he should definitely not be. He thinks this is cool...

"Travelling through Dubai"

I don't even know why this came up when I searched for Millennium. But it's a ok edited video, but it just about 4 college party "doods" talking smack and being lude. They are looking forward to drinking and sluts in Dubai(!@#$@#) .. ah the joys of being young and stupid.

Fire alarm goes off at the Millennium St. Louis

So these morons filmed their sophomoric evacuation after a fire alarm goes off. The alarm was blamed on a room sprinkler that "randomly popped". More likely they held a lighter to it just to see what would happen.... sigh....

"The Fear...The Confusion...The Dreaded Staircase"

These guys were apparently friends of the guys who sent in the fire alarm episode from the Millennium St. Louis. Why do you want to post up this video? But hey they did leave a very long description and got lots of comments from their friends. Social networking at its best. So how are hoteliers supposed to get into this arena?


TO BE CONTINUED WITH THE UGLY AND THE WTF#$%