Some things which you should know about you tube....
Your favorite video site, You Tube, was created on Valentine’s day five years ago. The founders -- Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim – were working for PayPal before starting You Tube.
It’s an interesting story – these people wanted to share videos from a dinner party with friends but their email program won’t accept large video attachments. So they decided to design a simple video sharing site that went on to become one of the most popular sites on the Internet...
The first video uploaded on You Tube is called ''Me at the zoo". This video is uploaded on April 23rd 2005 and here is the link to that video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IV
People are watching 2 billion videos a day on You Tube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to You Tube...
You can contact You Tube at the address below.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
HISTORY OF ORKUT:-
He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web...
Things went as planned... and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!
It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a
word with this guy n took over this application. This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT.
The guy's name is Orkut Büyükkökten Yes it's named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is expected to b the richest person by 2009. Orkut Büyükkökten today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!
Some other Cool Facts about this guy:
- He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.
- He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
- He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
- He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
- He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
- He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
- He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
- He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
- He even gets $1 every time you log out of Orkut.
- He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
- He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list.
- The following picture is the picture that is the man of ORKUT
