Thursday, May 10, 2007

What is 'You Tube'?

You Tube is the most widely used video sharing site at this point in time. The site invites users to upload, view, share video footage of any genre expect pornography. Registered users can rate one another's video footage and leave feedback comments.

As well as You Tube being a web 2.0 application, it also has web 2.0 functions within it. For example the site has RSS feeds which users can subscribe to the content feeds from a particular user or users.

Brief History
You Tube was first established in February 2005 by three former employees of PayPal. And there is now currently 67 employees currently running the company. On 13th November 2006, Google Inc. bought You Tube for $1.65 billion.

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