Cool YouTube/AppleTV Hack

[ Update: Apple will add YouTube videos to AppleTV menu ]

Soon, AppleTV users will be able to watch a selection of YouTube's most-viewed and most-discussed videos on AppleTV. That's courtesy of a new plug-in called "A Series of Tubes," which isn't yet available, but which you can learn more about (and see in a video demo) here and here.

In other YouTube news (courtesy of JD Lasica's Social Media blog), an AP story about what the founders of YouTube have been up to lately.