Thanks to Igor Schwartinski for showing me the playlist feature of YouTube.

This is the thing I was always waiting for. With the playlist feature you can let YouTube play the videos of your playlist in a row. This may not sound so interesting because it’s a basic feature of every iPod, iPhone or you name the device. But in case of YouTube it brings the platform to a new level. It’s not just uploading and sharing your videos anymore, now you can use it as a web radio or as internet music collection and this for free. Have you already experienced that you find a lot of songs and even videos of your favorite artists at YouTube? Even the latest tracks and some live mixes are online and only in a few cases I couldn’t find the song I was looking for. For me this makes YouTube to a very interesting alternative to the hype machine.

With the send-a-friend option and sharing of your playlists you have the same concept like iMix in iTunes. If everyone is tagging the songs right YouTube should be able to suggest you new music that you will like, based on the playlists of the other users – goodbye last.fm. So if you have unlimited internet access with your iPhone you don’t need to buy any music from Apple you can get everything for free from YouTube.

Do only I get the feeling that Google is doing a lot of things right?