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2. Generally about YouTube A video sharing website Youtube HQ is situated in San Bruno, CA It uses Adobe Flash Video for viewing different sorts of videos It is used worldwide Free and easy to use

3. History of YouTube It was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim. They came up with the idea because of personal problems with sharing videos Youtube.com was activated in February 2005 In May 2005, they offered a Beta test for other users, and the site grew very rapidly It was officially launched in November 2005 Google bought Youtube in October 2006, for 1,65 billion dollars Until January 2009, there were more then six billion videos viewed (and counting…)

4. What you can find on YouTube –Home videos –Movie clips/sequences –TV clips –Music videos –Video bloggers –Videos from bigger media corporations (BBC, CBS,…)

5. About videos on YouTube Youtube uses different of ranking its videos: –Featured –Rising Videos –Most Discussed –Most Viewed –Top Favourited –Most Popular –Most Responded –Top Rated There is some sort of “rivalry” between the top viewed videos

6. Criticism of YouTube It’s Frequently being criticized for failing to ensure Copyright to some videos Countries like China, Pakistan or Turkey have blocked Youtube because of religion, different conspiracy theories or other inappropriate content (racism, footage of deaths/executions from wars,…)

7. Links Some examples of videos from Youtube: –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAj1cSmViVk - Funny videoshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAj1cSmViVk –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8D-E-A0uBg – Videos from popular, worldwide events (from sports, politics, music…)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8D-E-A0uBg –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0B3maUK0E – Different commercialshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0B3maUK0E –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw – Amazing talents or other cool videoshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw