Social Networking - Youtube
YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. [2] In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.
The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.[3]
Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation and copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service. Accounts of registered users are called "channels".
The Key Stages within Youtube:
Ideas: An idea for a video, new channel design or new feature for Youtube is created first, and then the idea that sounds most interesting for design, of any of the above that has been chosen is out forward and given a design, or filming ideas or scripts.
Production and Design: Whether it is a design for the site, or a video to be made, a production or design process has to go into what is to be made. This involves scripts, what sounds should be involved, who stars in the video, where the video will be set OR what colour the new object will be for the site, design and shape of the object, where the object on the site will be, what links will be involved to get there and what features the new object will gibe EG: faster Uploading process.
Distributing: The YouTube team then put the new designs, videos or new account features onto the Youtube service. Everything is tested and if ready to go, officially published onto the website.
Youtube Headquarters, California. Youtube is currently a large, web based company which started in 2005 after 2 University Students found trouble trying to share a video with one another.
This sector is different from other sectors because this deals with the creation, progress and design of Websites that deal with Social Networking, rather than Animation and gaming, which relate to CGI and Virtual Interactive Environments.
Jobs within YouTube:
Youtube provide several different jobs within their business:
Video Publisher
Designer
Design Manager
Programmer
Links to info:
http://www.youtube.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
http://www.tyndall.ie/research/quantum-optics-group/youtube-logo.jpg
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/guide/youtube-to-ipod/screenshots/youtube2.gif
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