2. Overview
History
Purpose
Content
Uses
How is Youtube Web 2.0
Other Sites
Research Says…
Positives and Negatives
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3.  www.youtube.com
 Video sharing site
 Runs user made material

4.  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

5.  Created to…
 Allow users to watch and share homemade videos
worldwide
 Build a forum to…
 Share Information
 Inspire peoples creativity on a global scale

6.  Youtube is a video based site
 The content comes from users that upload their
own videos

7.  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.

8.  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

9.  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

10.  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

11.  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

12.  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/youtube-
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 http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/2010/08/24/youtube-
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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.htm