Searching for videos and signing up

When you first access the site 'You Tube', you can easily search for various video clips by entering a topic, title, genre etc into the search box or by selecting the group labels 'videos', 'categories', 'channels' or community'. However your access to the videos is restricted and you are not able upload any content or do any other activites, until you sign up to 'You Tube' which is a straight forward task.


To sign up you simply click on the sign up icon on the home page and fill in the form that follows. Then wollah! Your another one of the hundreds and thousands of other members, of this great video sharing site!

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.

How does the Jitsu community use Web 2.0 technology

I am going to research how the Jitsu community uses the Web 2.0 application ‘You Tube’

Questions I will ask myself

What is YouTube? (how do you join, how do you upload, how do you search for videos.

How’s does the Jitsu community utilise 'You Tube' for their benefits?

What are the possible negative effects of 'You Tube' have on the Jitsu community?

And I plan to submit my own video footage of me practising Jitsu.