YouTube is video sharing website headquartered in Sun Bruno California created by three PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley Jawed Karim in 2005. In November 2006 YouTube was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.
The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, and comment on videos. Most of the videos which are uploaded, are uploaded by individuals but companies advertise and offer some of their products via YouTube. Unregistered users can watch videos, and registered users can upload videos to their channels.
Some information about the founders:
Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign.
The story that is mostly heard at the media was that Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube after they had experienced the difficulty of sharing videos at a dinner party which was hosted at Chen’s apartment. Karim did not attend at the party and denied that it had occurred, but Chen commented that the idea was found after the dinner party which was probably the best marketing idea around this story because it was easily believable.
YouTube from 2008 never forgot the April Fools day, and every year a new prank is featured.
Lastly, the first YouTube video, was uploaded on Saturday, April 23,2005, and titled “Me at the zoo”, and was uploaded by Jawed Karim and shows him at the San Diego Zoo. The video can be still viewed on the site.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw )
I like how you include the most important things in the first paragraph. However, you could try to make the title seem a bit more interesting and catchy.
ReplyDeleteRemember that people can stop reading at any moment so include the most interesting and relevant ideas in the first paragraph.
It doesn't all have to be in chronological order.
Good Job!!