Youtube

YouTube is a popular free Video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging.

Youtube was founded in February 2005 by three employees of Paypal : Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Stev Chen. The San Bruno based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display video.

Since January, the growth of Youtube was 297%. A few weeks ago, the website reached 100 millions downloads a day. This success story simply started from an idea : giving an answer to a current problem. The founders invented a system allowing the exchange of videos in streaming because they could not send each other videos by mail. They thought this problem was common and they were right.

Personally, I am not a regular user of youtube but I often click on links leading to this videos displayed on the website. I really like the concept because it is a proof of generosity. The problem is that it has been bought by Google in a financial purpose. http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles6/youtube-success.htm