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is a video-sharing website where users can upload videos. It is currently (7/2012) the largest such site, and was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who all worked at PayPal before. While it mainly featured movies from regular folks (and some illegal user uploads) at the beginning, but eventually YouTube grabbed enough market share to attract higher quality content over the years. Now, there is something for everyone, and YouTube continues to push for high-quality content, while keeping the support from amateur video-makers. The company was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6B.
Microsoft YouTube channel hacked, did not get Sesame Street treatment
10/24/2011, Unlike Sesame Street’s YouTube channel which was hacked recently and saw pornography uploaded which could potentially scar the minds of little ones for years to come, Microsoft’s experience is far less risque. In fact, while Microsoft reported that their YouTube [...]
Sesame Street YouTube channel hacked with porn
10/17/2011, I knew that Big Bird was more than just an innocent moniker – and someone else thought the same, too, with Sesame Street’s YouTube channel being hacked yesterday – where the standard issue of family-friendly content was removed, while pornographic [...]
YouTube music partners can now sell merchandise
10/17/2011, Apart from being one heck of a convenient video delivering channel, YouTube might finally stumble upon a way to monetize their site – and in a big way to boot. After all, when 3,000,000,000 (yes, that’s three billion) videos are [...]
YouTube Space Lab helps students design science experiment in space
10/10/2011, Video content site YouTube as well as computer company Lenovo have come together to roll out a worldwide initiative that targets 14 to 18 year-old high school students, gaining the assistance of space agencies NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) [...]
YouTube starts offering movie rentals in the UK
10/07/2011, Heads up UK YouTube visitors, it looks like YouTube has finally started offering residents in the UK the same service it has offered to those in the US and Canada – movie rental. Released back in May for those in [...]
Miramax looking to partner with Google for Android, YouTube and Google TV
10/04/2011, If you’re a fan of films such as Clerks, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Serendipity just to name a few, it looks like Miramax (the distributing company for said films) is trying to land a deal with Google that will not only [...]
Amazon’s NYC Test video on YouTube
09/28/2011, We’re more or less a few hours away from Amazon heating up the Internet with news of their latest release – the Kindle Fire tablet, and Amazon promptly decided to upload the Kindle YouTube page with their new video called [...]
YouTube mobile offers a new experimental layout
09/26/2011, Websites/services that have been optimized for mobile phones are always welcome. It makes for easier browsing and it’s a lot neater than attempting to view a full website on a small screen, and now it looks like YouTube has enabled [...]
Delicious to get a fresh start
09/12/2011, YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley picked up social bookmarking site Delicious some time earlier this April on the cheap when Yahoo! placed it up for sale, and according to the both of them in a New York Times [...]
Samsung Smart TVs support YouTube 3D videos
09/01/2011, IFA 2011 has proved to be quite the platform for Samsung to announce a slew of new products, and among them would be 3D videos on YouTube being supported by Samsung’s range of Smart TVs. This will certainly bring a [...]
Google+ Hangout lets users watch YouTube videos together
08/19/2011, While Google+ might be just a poor imitation of Facebook to some people, Google is taking steps to differentiate its service by adding features that the other doesn’t have. One new feature that will no doubt be a popular tool [...]
YouTube Music revamped, adds artists’ recommendations
08/19/2011, If you use YouTube Music a lot and if you haven’t already noticed, the website has been revamped in such a way to better serve music videos along with personalized recommendations. Personalized recommendations go a long way when discovering new [...]
YouTube for Android updated
08/08/2011, Google has just rolled out a new update for the official YouTube app on Android devices. Now at version 2.2.14, which is available from the Android Market, features a couple of improvements with additional features and the usual bug fixes. [...]
