MARK HIMLER

Overview

History

Purpose

Content

Uses

How is Youtube Web 2.0

Other Sites

Research Says…

Positives and Negativesclose

OVERVIEW

www.youtube.com

Video sharing site

Runs user made material

RETURN

HISTORY Created By Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim

Created in February 2005

Launched December 2005

Bought by Google for $1.65 Billion October 2006

First Rick Roll video May 2006

HD video is added December 2008

Wins Peabody Award April 2009

3D video is added July 2009

Exceeds 2 Billion views daily May 2010

PURPOSE

Created to…

Allow users to watch and share homemade

videos worldwide

Build a forum to…

Share Information

Inspire peoples creativity on a global scale

CONTENT

Youtube is a video based site

The content comes from users that upload

their own videos

USES

Youtube can be used for Entertainment, Business, Education, and Home purposes. Entertainment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtIoGQxqQs ) Afro Ninja

Youtube is full of Videos made for entertainment Business (http://www.youtube.com/user/wellsfargo?feature=chclk ) Wells Fargo

Flash Mob

Businesses use Youtube to keep customers up to date with anything going on

Education (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+tie+a+tie&aq=0&oq=how+to+tie+ ) How to tie a tie

There are tutorials on Youtube for EVERYTHING from tying a tie to doing algebra

Home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8qSCklTJ0E ) How to Hang Drywall

There are how-to videos for cooking and home improvement all over Youtube by professionals and amatuers.

HOW IS YOUTUBE WEB 2.0

Enables people to communicate globally

Shares news and information Collaboration of users and Google who runs

the site creates a place that is viewed 2 billion times daily for news, business, education, and entertainment

OTHER SITES

Hulu and Metacafe

SIMILARITIES Video sharing sites Free to sign up but can be used without creating

an account

DIFFERENCE Youtube is largely user posted material Hulu and Metacafe are mostly to completely

uploaded by the site itself

RESEARCH SAYS…

Educause.edu Easy to navigate and use site for watching a

sharing videos Free to everyone “Offers expression through video”

Onlineschools.org Claims that Youtube has become as influential to

modern society as the cell phone Time Magazine

Youtube was among the biggest reasons for voting “You” person of the year in 2006

POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES

Positives Enables people to see videos around the world Can find instructional videos for anything Free to use

Negative Finding specific video can be difficult

Difficult since anyone can title their video whatever they want even if it irrelevant

Loading can be slow or stop midway through a video

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/t/press_timeline

http://www.youtube.com/t/about_youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/wellsfargo?feature=chclk

http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/2010/08/24

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http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/2010/08/24

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http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7018.pdf

http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/youtube/

http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Man-Of-The-Year.

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