A. History of
YouTube (a 21 October 2006 video)
a.
Founded by Steven Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, former PayPal
employees, went live in May 2005
b.
Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion in
October 2006 (NBC News)
c.
Most popular video….yes, Despacito by Luis Fonsi with 4+B views (Billboard’s Top
Ten)
d.
What is
ContentID? Or, what happens when you upload infringing
material (monetize, block, or track strategies)
e.
Viacom’s $1B
infringement lawsuit over 160,000 clips (2007)
f.
Possible $60B in revenue from TV ads versus
$3B online (why did Google TV fail?)
g.
John Seabrook, “Streaming Dreams:
YouTube Turns Pro,” New Yorker, 16 January 2012: 24-30.
B. Sharing videos/photos--Compared to other programs (such as
open source digiKam,
Facebook.com or Dropbox.com--which do you use?)
C. Compression of Images (lossless or lossy when you crop, use
red eye reduction, or color correct) for storage purposes
i.
Raw
(.raf, .crw, .mrw, .nef,
.orf, .dng or .pef) and RGB image formats, out of more than 100 formats)
ii.
Compression of
images, Joint
Photographic Editors Group (JPEG 2000), Windows Bit Map
(BMP), and Graphic
Interchange Format (GIF), versus Adobe’s Tagged Image
(TIFF)
iii.
EXIF
(Exchangeable image format) embeds “meta data” about the make and model
information of your camera when using JPEG; see http://www.digicamhelp.com/learn/glossary/exif.php
D. To "organize, edit, and share your
photos,” Photos
3.0 which uses the IPTC
G-2 standard and facial
recognition using patented technology, but not available in
all countries (why?); Google Photos supports some RAW file types,
but not all, and will display your EXIF metadata. G-Mailed photos will have
this information, but recipients can only see it if they are using other IPTC
compatible programs.
E. Google Sketch-Up (3D modeling) at https://www.sketchup.com/ for
architects, engineers, modelers, and others
F. Facebook Buys Instagram created by Stanford’s Kevin Systrom
and Mike Krieger
in April 2012 (for $1B; see story)
but ownership issues
related to those photos persists
G. Self-identity, selfies, and privacy issues; see the Privacy Act of
1974 which applies to US federal agencies’ data collection;
see, Jeffrey Rosen, "Google's
Gatekeepers: Nicole Wong and her colleague decide what the
world can see on YouTube," New York Times Magazine, 30 November
2008, pp. 50-55.
H. Some favorite sites
(from the earlier classes)
