subject: Who Invented Youtube [print this page] Who Invented Youtube Who Invented Youtube
So, who invented YouTube? YouTube was started off by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Actually, the three gentlemen were working from a garage at Menlo Park from where they started off this great website. The three inventors were transformed into instant millionaires after they took up an offer by Google to buy off the company at an astonishing 1.65 billion dollars. Since the year 2005, this site has been slowly growing as the website of choice when it comes to uploading, watching and sharing original videos in the World Wide Web. A search for the site 'wwwYouTubecom' will take you to the official YouTube site using any search engine. The site allows for video embedding during the downloading process which means that you can place the video on pages other than 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.
Ensure that before you start the dragging process, all the videos are already in the MP4 or Mpeg-4 format which is favored by most iPods. In order to do this quickly and without any hassles, download a good converter for iPod video. IPod video converters are excellent as they convert most video formats like DIVX, Xvid, MPEG, FLV, AVI among others into the MP4 format. A few clicks of a button and your video is ready. You have to ensure that you download the iPod video converter as manual conversion is not an option. One converter that is indeed popular is the cucusoft converter which is able to convert most formats into the MP4 format which is recognizable by most iPods.
