 YouTube is a website that allows users to upload, view, and share video clips. It was founded in February 2005 by three former and early employees of PayPal. It uses a Macromedia Flash format to serve its content. It's popular in much the same way as Google Video due to its ability to host anyone's videos. It hosts a variety of movie and TV show clips, music videos, and homemade videos. (Despite YouTube's rules against posting copyrighted video, such material is in abundance.) Video feeds of YouTube videos can also be posted on blogs and personal websites using APIs. Image File history File links Logo_sm. ...
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Usage and Operations
As of April 2006, 35,000 new videos are uploaded to YouTube daily. The total viewership has been estimated to be in the millions, with 30 million clips watched daily. YouTube has 25 employees, with four interns from Stanford University hired as censors to evaluate videos which viewers have marked as "objectionable". The YouTube office is in San Mateo, California.[1] In North America, an intern is one who works in a temporary position with an emphasis on education rather than merely employment, making it similar in some respects to an apprenticeship. ...
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Criticism
Video quality Like Google Video and other video sites, there are complaints about the video quality. One problem is that, with some videos, the audio and video do not match up. // Google Video is a service provided by Google that allows anyone to upload video clips to Googles web servers. ...
Illegal files To avoid illegal copied video files, the videos are distributed in Macromedia Flash format, which prevents viewers from easily making digital copies.[1] "Cheese Souffle" is a specific codeword for uploaders on Youtube.com to use when posting content on the website that is protected by copyright laws and therefore eligible for deletion to safeguard the copyright maintainers. The term has been used primarily on the site thus far by the Internet Wrestling Community to prevent WWE sting operations as seen while searching for it.[2] Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it as well as games or movies created using the program. ...
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However, some users are able to copy these files by pulling the .DAT file from their TEMP folder and converting it to a different format of video using video converting programs. Some websites and services also provide the user with the option the download the videos directly.
History YouTube was founded in February 2005 by Chad Hurley (CEO), Steve Chen (CTO), and Jawed Karim (advisor) who were all early employees of PayPal [3]. The domain name YouTube.com was activated on February 15, 2005,[4] with the website launching shortly thereafter. In November 2005, venture capital firm Sequoia invested $3.5 million in YouTube.[1] Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha, former CFO of PayPal, joined the board of directors at YouTube. By December, YouTube had caught up with iFilm, another popular video website which had been bought by Viacom for $49 million. In April 2006, Sequoia Capital invested a further $8 million in YouTube. Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. ...
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The site's popularity skyrocketed in December 2005 when it hosted the popular Lazy Sunday clip from a Saturday Night Live broadcast. In February 2006, NBC Universal asked YouTube to remove several copyrighted NBC video clips, including Lazy Sunday and 2006 Olympics clips, from their site.[1][5] However, Sky One allowed the release of a live action version of The Simpsons title sequence which has garnered considerable popular attention. The most popular video of all time is "Smosh"'s "Pokemon Theme Song". Youtube has recently also passed a rule limiting the videos uploaded to only 10 minutes, although videos uploaded through YouTube's Director Program can have any length. Recently, all Family Guy related videos were taken down from the site due to complaints from the owners of the show.[6] Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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See also // Google Video is a service provided by Google that allows anyone to upload video clips to Googles web servers. ...
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Notes and references - ^ a b c d Woolley, Scott (Mar. 13, 2006). "Raw and Random", p. 27. Forbes.
- ^ Cheese Souffle search on YouTube
- ^ Graham, Jefferson (Nov. 21, 2005). "Video websites pop up, invite postings" USAToday
- ^ youtube.com overview by Alexa
- ^ NBC Pressures Websites on Video Clips by Andrew Wallenstein, 22 February 2006, Backstage.com
- ^ Your 15 Minutes of Fame..ummm...Make that 10 Minutes or Less, YouTube blog, March 26, 2006
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