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Who invented YouTube? Jawed Karim, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are the three men credited with inventing YouTube. These men were operating from a garage that is located at Menlo Park where they launched this amazing site. Google made the three men instant millionaires when they offered to buy the invention for an astounding 1.65 billion dollars. YouTube is believed to have started off way back in 2005 as a website for sharing, uploading and watching original videos on the internet. This site can be accessed by searching for 'wwwYouTubecom' on any search engine. It is possible to make use of the video embedding feature on the YouTube site which will give you the leeway to post the videos on other sites apart from those of YouTube.
Steve Chen has his origins in Taiwan where he was born way back in 1978 and then immigrated to the US at the age of 15 years. He was admitted to the University of Illinois for his university education after which he was taken up by PayPal for employment. While at PayPal, Chen met with the other YouTube inventors i.e. Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. He is currently the chief technology officer at YouTube. The other inventor of YouTube, Chad Hurley was born in 1977 and has a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania after which he was directly employed by eBay's PayPal division. Chad Hurley is the current chief executive officer at YouTube. Jawed Karim who was also an employee at PayPal is the third partner at YouTube and holds an advanced degree from the prestigious Stanford University.
YouTube as an invention has made it possible for users of the internet to share videos, download them and also watch them. IPods users are the most frequent users of YouTube and especially those who download videos. Some people still find it hard to believe that it is actually possible to have YouTube videos playing on the iPod. You might still be asking how do I get YouTube videos on my iPod, here's how. The first step is to have the video in a format that the iPod can recognize. Once you have achieved this, you can use iTunes to drag the videos into the iPod.
The Mpeg-4 or MP4 format is widely used by most iPods and therefore, any video that has to be played in the iPod has to be in this format. Get yourself a nice video converter for iPods to undertake this quickly and effectively. These video converters for iPods are able to convert formats like FLV, DIVX, AVI, MPEG, Xvid etc into the recommended MP4 format. All that is required is to click a button and then you are god to go. Since manual conversion is out of the question, you will have to download the video converter for iPods. Cucusoft converter is one good converter that is able to convert all the formats identified above into the MP4 format which is iPod friendly.
