{"id":21355,"date":"2010-09-11T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=21355"},"modified":"2010-09-11T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T05:09:13","slug":"the-new-way-to-get-hired-student-creates-youtube-instant-it-goes-viral-youtube-ceo-offers-job-via-twitter","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/the-new-way-to-get-hired-student-creates-youtube-instant-it-goes-viral-youtube-ceo-offers-job-via-twitter","title":{"rendered":"The new way to get hired: Student creates YouTube Instant, it goes viral, YouTube CEO offers job via Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Instant has inspired the very impressed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/feross.net\/instant\/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Instant<\/a>, but the latter wasn&#8217;t created by Google OR YouTube. It was built by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/freethefeross\" target=\"_blank\">Feross Aboukhadijeh<\/a>&nbsp;of Stanford University).<\/p>\n<p>Feross&#8217; creation functions quite similarly, in that it starts working as soon as you type a letter. In fact, it starts auto-playing videos as you mosey along with your search query, which is very neat.<\/p>\n<p>So neat, actually, that YouTube CEO and Co-Founder Chad Hurley tweeted this to Feross: &#8220;Want a job?&#8221; To which Feross replied, &#8220;Is that a for-real job offer?&#8221; To which Chad came back with, &#8220;Are you ready to leave school? I&#8217;ll send you a DM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boom. Now we know it pays to post your creative efforts online.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how quickly YouTube Instant becomes a reality. Perhaps instantly?<\/p>\n<p>Also of note is that another creative fellow instantized Google Maps, and although it&#8217;s still a little rough around the edge, it&#8217;s another very impressive feat. Amazing what people can do with just the seed of an idea planted in their minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Instant has inspired the very impressed&nbsp;YouTube Instant, but the latter wasn&#8217;t created by Google OR YouTube. It was built by&nbsp;Feross Aboukhadijeh&nbsp;of Stanford University). Feross&#8217; creation functions quite similarly, in that it starts working as soon as you type a letter. In fact, it starts auto-playing videos as you mosey along with your search query, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":21357,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-21355","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/21355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/21355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/21357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21355"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=21355"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=21355"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=21355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}