Tuesday, April 3, 2007

YouTube: Broadcast Your Idea

Honestly speaking, I am not very fond of folksonomies because of bad experience. I do not want to share my email address with those people or groups that I do not really know. When you share your email address in group email then you could have problems sometimes. For instance, I opened my first email address at the end of 1998 and I got a very nice email address named abdul@connectbd.com. The most important thing is that I got the email address with my name and it was completely free. One day I joined with my friend’s email group and then the mess started up. My friend added me in his friends group and his friends added me, him and his friends in their group. After a few months I found the group members crossed more than 300. I was getting at least 50 worthless emails everyday and as a result I had to abandoned the email address.

I like video.google.com and youtube.com very much as they serve us almost the same service but if any one wants me to choose one from these two then I will rather choose youtube than google video. I like YouTube very much because of its free uploading, viewing, and sharing video clips and definitely users could rate video and add comments on it. This site is the most user friendly video sharing site on the internet. The most flexible thing is that you do not need to be registered to watch most of the videos and the only thing you have to do type whatever you want to see in the search box. You are allowed to upload unlimited videos on YouTube but you have to be registered with YouTube when you are going to do it. According to YouTube, a 100 million clips are viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded per 24 hours. The site has almost 20 million visitors each month, where around 44% are female, 56% male, and the 12- to 17-year-old age group is dominant.

However, Google video and YouTube are theoretically same thing. For instance, in two sites users could upload, share and watch videos but I think YouTube is better than Google. In YouTube, users could comment on videos, rate videos, make friends, create favorites, play lists and embed videos into their blogs. The videos have tags associated with them and for this action user have the results within the query and from the result they could see the search related videos, most popular, most viewed and also the top rated videos. The most important thing is that YouTube does not contain any nudity and as a result it becomes popular to all aged people. All these advantages make YouTube a excellent and user friendly video sharing websites on the World Wide Web.

With the advantages of YouTube, users can post their own videos on the web but today people are publishing others movies, music videos etc. without their permission. Even though YouTube has some lack in it but with the proper step it can be fixed easily.

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