Thursday, February 11, 2010

You Tube - A Video Sharing Website

Thinking of favorite video! No Doubt, You Tube is the ultimate destination, based on adobe flash technology You Tube is a video sharing website on which web user can upload and share their video files with whole world. Three former employees of PayPal create a history - Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim by pioneering You Tube a reality on February 2005.

13, Nov 2006 is the day on which Google Inc had added another gems in their wealth by acquiring You Tube , LLC for US$1.65 billion, and now it becomes a subsidiary of Google. You Tube content is mostly generated by amateur individuals and advertising media corporations in forms of videos, music, movie and TV clips and video blogging.  Account profiles of registered users are referred to as "channels" and only registered user can upload videos which are further subjected to approval for implicit or explicit content.


Domain :                 http://www.youtube.com/
Domain Activated: February 15, 2005
Headquarters:       San Bruno, California, United States
Owner:                   Google Inc.
Alexa Rank:           4


You Tube first video was of founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo by name "ME at the Zoo". Today, You Tube is available in  14 unique languages and about 20 hours of unique videos uploaded every minute.  Gradually, You Tube made an agreement with Lions Gate Entertainment, MGM,  and CBS, so that they can upload full length videos, films and episodes, step taken to compete with Hulu who advertise videos from Fox and Disney.

Today, You Tube act as a platform for young artist to post self shoot music or videos to cast their talent and reviewed by audience, a individual voice against injustice or in support of victims of natural disasters and many more.

Uploading Features

1)You Tube entertain 10 minutes of videos and file size of 2 GB by standard account. Longer videos needs enrollment to You Tube Partner ship program (YPP).
2)Accepts videos in almost most container formats (.AVI, .MKV, .MOV, .MP4, DivX, .FLV, and .OGG.) includes video codecs MPEG-4, MPEG, 3GP and .WMV.
3)HTML5 video playback
4)Newly introduced features by you tube is 3D videos can also be uploaded.

Stay Tuned for more info on You Tube.

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