You Tube
YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid February 2005 by three former employees of PayPal. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display video. The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google's stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006.
YouTube
YouTube is the most renowned video sharing website on internet. It allows the
user to upload, view and share the clippings of original videos or captured from
movie or television on the internet. YouTube is biggest website in its category,
as over 25 quadrillion bytes (petabytes) of videos were being streamed from the
site per month within couple of years from its commencement. It is far ahead
with its nearest rivals (Yahoo Videos, Mega upload, Metacafe) in terms of video
uploading, viewing and sharing. It was founded by former Paypal employees ? Chad
Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005. Viewing its popularity, Google Inc.
had acquired it in 2006 for $1.65 billion. Since its inception, YouTube has
become an amazing Internet phenomenon like Amazon.com, Yahoo, Google, MySpace
and Facebook with its unique features and electrifying growth.
YouTube provides the users a platform to express their creation and to share it
with the entire world without any hassles. YouTube also provides the facility
for sharing selection through public or private mode to protect the privacy of
the uploader. Any user, who wants to upload any original videos or the clippings
of any captured videos from other sources that do not violate the copyright law
can upload it on the internet by making a user account on YouTube. They can also
make it private to enable only the nears-and-dears to watch it or make it public
for everyone?s viewing. For viewing any public video that does not fall under
adult category can be watch without making a user account on YouTube, while some
specific category videos require a user account to watch those videos.
YouTube also provides the feature of reporting abusive, obscene, malicious, or
inappropriate videos if those violate the law of copyright or found offensive to
any race, nation, individual, religion, community or children to the admin by
flagging it. The admin delete those videos from the internet to prevent any
further uproar.
Technology
For viewing YouTube videos you would need flash based web browser because
YouTube converts the format of supported technology into flash files. However,
for trial, YouTube has provided the facility to watch some specific format
videos like H.264 or webM to watch it on HTML5 enabled web browser while other
format videos cannot be viewed.
For uploading, YouTube platform accepts some mostly trendy video formats like
.AVI, .MKV, .MOV, .MP4, DivX, .FLV, .ogg, .ogv, MPEG-4, MPEG, VOB, .WMV and 3GP
from mobile uploading. Any registered user can upload maximum 15 minutes long
video clipping at one time, while standard account holders having excellent
YouTube history can upload unlimited long videos. YouTube allows the user to
upload normal computer, mobile and 3D videos on its site while its default
stream is encoded in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format, with stereo AAC audio.