The Guardian is reporting that, according to Alexa, YouTube generates 3.9% of global internet traffic compared to MySpace’s 3.4%. Nielsen has indicated traffic has grown 297% in the last six months. During that same period MySpace’s growth has slowed to 9%.

I first used YouTube one year ago when I uploaded my first video on August 9th. I wrote about the service in a post titled “Social video sharing service - YouTube!” I created several videos just to try out the service including very boring moments like “Driving from Wendy’s to Home!“, or classics like “Vegas Forum Trip“, and of course Ethan’s “Batman Birthday Party.” I even tried to use the forum to communicate with potential clients like Ikea with this classic, “Weblogs Work for IKEA!” I even documented the 2005 Web 2.0 conference in a very borning video titled, “Web 2.0 Conference.” The “Driving from Wendy’s” video even appeared on NPR shortly after I posted it. They used it as an example of the useless stuff on YouTube.