{"id":1250,"date":"2008-05-28T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/internet-technology\/youtube-gala-dinner-at-google-zeitgeist.html"},"modified":"2008-05-28T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T17:31:37","slug":"youtube-gala-dinner-at-google-zeitgeist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Youtube Gala Dinner at Google Zeitgeist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I already blogged about the great time I had at Google Zeitgeist<\/a> this year. Every year GZ gets better and better — hard for Nikesh <\/a>and his team to top this year\u00b4s event– and this was partly thanks to the great Gala dinner on Monday.<\/p>\n

While the sessions, speakers and panels<\/a> during the day where more than stimulating and fun, the gala dinner was just amazingly organised. During dinner artists performed and all of them were incredibly talented: some of which you can see in the video my son Tom recorded. What do all of those artists have in common? YouTube<\/a> made them famous – some of them have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of views on YouTube (Google <\/a>bought Youtube for $1.65 billion –in shares– in October 2006).<\/p>\n

Those are the artists which performed that night:
\nBeardyman (beatboxer from Brighton – viewed over 2.5million times on YouTube)
\nBilly Wingrove (UK\u00b4s top professional football freestyler – viewed over 7 million times)
\nFelix Zenger (beatboxer from Finland – viewed over 5 million times)
\nFlawless Street Dance (urban street dance team – viewed over 40.000 times)
\nFreestyle Skaters UK (as the name says: freestyle skaters)
\nJoss Loner (pianist and singer – the 10th most subscribed to German musician on YouTube)
\nMehmet Kekec (combines street dancing with spinning balls)
\nMia Rose (musician – 3rd largest following of musicians on YouTube of all times)
\nNathan “Flutebox” Lee (beatboxing while playing the flute – viewed over 100.000 times)
\nSecret Wars – Grafitti Artists (a cross between a live art exhibition and a grafitti battle)
\nVagabond Crew (breakdance – viewed over 10.000 times)
\nYuri Lane (plays the Harmonica while beatboxing – over 13 million views)<\/p>\n


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