The Next Big Deal?_The Big Noodles

  We do indeed live in a global vil-lage now. People in Americahave been talking about theYouTube phenomenonbecause the site came fromnowhere to become one of the top destina-tions on the Web in less than a year, and ina flash sharp-nosed Chinese Internet fortuneseekers smelled the success and createdover 150 such video-sharing companies in afew months.