You Tube is a video sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clip, and music videos, as well as amateur contents such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos but have to be registered to upload videos to You Tube.
Viewing You Tube videos on a personal computer requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed on the browser. The Adobe Flash Player plug-in is one of the most common pieces of software installed on personal computers and accounts for almost 75% of online video material. All You Tube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users who have a good track record of complying with the site's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hour in length, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone.
Most videos enable users to leave comments, and these have attracted attention for the negative aspects of both their form and content. In 2006, praised web 2.0 for enabling "community and collaboration on a scale never seen before", and added that You Tube "harness the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom".
Viewing You Tube videos on a personal computer requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed on the browser. The Adobe Flash Player plug-in is one of the most common pieces of software installed on personal computers and accounts for almost 75% of online video material. All You Tube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users who have a good track record of complying with the site's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hour in length, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone.
Most videos enable users to leave comments, and these have attracted attention for the negative aspects of both their form and content. In 2006, praised web 2.0 for enabling "community and collaboration on a scale never seen before", and added that You Tube "harness the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom".
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