Founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and jawed Karim.
· You Tube’s Web-site was officially launched with little public fanfare in june 2005.
· You Tube was one of a number of competing services aiming to remove the technical barriers to the widespread sharing of video online.
· You Tube set no limist on the number of Videos without High levels of technical knowledge.
· Link to other users as friends, and provide URLs and HTML code that enabled videos to be easily embedded into other websites.
· In October 2006 when Google acquired You Tube for $1.65 billion.
· In early 2008 it was according to various web metrics services, consistently in the top ten most visited websites globally.
· April 2008, You Tube hosted upwards of 85 million videos, a number that represents a tenfold increase over previous year and that represents a tenfold increase over the previous year and that number continues to increase exponentially.
· The service accounted for 37 percent of all internet videos watched in the united states, with the next largest service, Fox Interactive Media, Accounting for only 4.2 percent.
3. These are examples of videos from youtube
Convergence: Channel 4 converging with You Tube.
Collaborative: two users working together to create a video.
Interactive: read the comment box
to become interactive you can also share the videos on other sites by getting the java script or the link,
Participatory: by watching a YouTube video you become participatory with it, this is shown in the views. You can also participate by liking the video and commenting.
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