from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
YouTube, Inc.
youtube.com
<World-Wide Web, video> An on-line {video} {file sharing} {web
site}, founded on 2005-02-14 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and
Jawed Karim. Anyone can upload video clips to the site and
these can then be viewed by others. In 2007, many such sites
exist but YouTube is the best known.
YouTube is funded by Sequoia Capital. In November 2006,
YouTube was bought by {Google Inc.}. YouTube has partnership
deals with content providers such as {CBS}, {BBC}, Universal
Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, The
Sundance Channel and many more.
YouTube Home (http://youtube.com/).
(2007-09-28)