Brookers is an amazing, creative woman whom many, many people discovered over at YouTube.com. Just twenty years old, she’s put together some pretty fun videos over the past 7 months and about a month ago was “discovered” by the folks over at Carson Daly at MTV. MTV will be all the richer if she joins them, but I’m afraid the Internet will suffer the loss. She rocks and I love the videos.

YouTube has done for videos what eBay did for auctions and Amazon.com did for e-commerce. I hope there are many more Brookers to come. Why? It’s simple — you upload your video in whatever format you’ve got it in (it doesn’t care, and why should you need to?), and it converts it into a video anybody can watch in their Web browser. Simple technology that simply works, solving a long-standing barrier to sharing videos online. Yahoo!’s recent announcement of relaunching their video service in this space will do nothing to dampen YouTube’s popularity and fun factor.

Good luck, Brookers!

Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

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