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  • 2007.07.07 - Beet.tv - First Video Sharing Site Paved the Way for YouTube — ShareYourWorld.com Was There First to Launch Ten Years Back
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      It’s not around anymore, but shareyourworld.com was the first video sharing site that allowed users to upload files in various video file formats and share videos.  It was started back i 1997 by Chase Norlin, who now heads the very cool video/audio search company Pixsy.

      Chase takes us down memory lane, during the last Internet boom when he launched this company whose time was not quite right.  In this interview, Chase talks about the challenges in bandwidth. He marvels how the YouTube guys picked up where he couldn’t at the time.

      And, yes the progress since 1997 is amazing.  This past 12 months have been unbelievable.  To bring you to speed on video sharing sites and various monetization schmemes, you should read this terrific round-up by Nick Gonzalez at TechCrunch.

  • 2010.02.01 - FastCompany - The Brief But Impactful History of YouTube
  • 2010.03.18 - FastCompany - "Steal It" and Other Internal YouTube Emails from Viacom's Copyright Suit
    • In a June 20, 2005 email to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim wrote: "If we want to sign up lots of users who keep coming back, we have to target the people who will never upload a video in their life. And those are really valuable because they spend time watching. And if they watch, then it's just like TV, which means lots of value."
    • On June 21, 2005, YouTube co-founder Jawed Hohengarten, Karim stated in an email to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen that "Where our value comes in is USERS.... [O]ur buy-out value is positively affected by ... more Youtube users.... The only thing we have control over is users. We must build features that sign up tons of users, and keep them coming back."
    • In a July 29, 2005 email about competing video websites, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen wrote to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, "steal it!", and Chad Hurley responded: "hmm, steal the movies?" Steve Chen replìed: "we have to keep in mind that we need to attract traffic. how much traffic will we get from personal videos? remember, the only reason why our traffic surged was due to a video of this type.... viral videos will tend to be THOSE type of videos."
  • Quora: 2011 - How did YouTube beat out the competition that came earlier such as Google videos, Metacafe, etc...?
  • Quora: 2010 - Why was YouTube successful?
  • 2014.10.09 - Digital Music News - The Real Difference Between Grooveshark and YouTube
    • they use the DMCA to their advantage by forcing copyright owners to repeatedly issue takedown notices, while being careful to never upload material themselves.  So, you have groups like the BPI issuing more than a million takedown notices to Google, often for the same damn websites over and over again, and Google complies and takes them down.  Because as stupid as the DMCA is, it’s the law, and Google and YouTube are exploiting it to the maximum extent possible.








Steve Chen



Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Chen


2013(?) - Bloomberg - Steve Chen: No regrets about selling YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_WgzCnObMY









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