Type of site:
Video hosting/social network service
Launched:
February 2005
Available language(s):
Multilingual
Other info:
YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. YouTube uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18.
Key features:
Videos uploads are limited to ten minutes in length and a file size of 2 GB
YouTube accepts videos uploaded in most formats including .WMV, .AVI, .MKV, .MOV, MPEG, .MP4, DivX, .FLV, .OGG as well as .3GP for mobile phones.
Groups where you can engage in various discussions.
Profile pages for your social networking interactivity.
YouTube mobile site available at m.youtube.com
YouTube videos are accompanied by HTML codes which can be used to embed it on a page outside the YouTube website.
My opinion:
If it’s a new video, you’re sure to watch it first on YouTube's network.
My (Profile) link:
http://youtube.com/user/cceerpp
