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YouTube For Dummies
By: Doug Sahlin , Chris BotelloeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: For Dummies
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YouTube For Dummies takes the classic Dummies tact in helping tech novices get a handle on a popular technology that more tech-savvy audiences consider "simple." With so much content on YouTube getting media attention, more first-timers are jumping on the site and they need help. The book also helps the next step audience of users looking to add content to YouTube. Content includes: Watching the Tube - includes getting your PC ready for YouTube viewing, finding video, signing up for an account, and creating favorites. Loading Video to YouTube—covers the nuts and bolts of shooting video, transferring it to a PC, editing it, and sending it up to YouTube. Bringing Along YouTube—covers the various ways you can use YouTube video in places other than on the site. Includes mobile YouTube and adding videos to your MySpace page or another Web site. I Always Wanted To Direct—explores how to use YouTube's directors program to upload longer video, use the site for marketing, or launch your own videoblog.
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| Title of Computers eBook: YouTube For Dummies | |
| Release Date: 02-10-2011 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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YouTube For Dummies
Chapter One
Everything You Wanted to Know about YouTube
In This Chapter
* Creating accounts
* Touring YouTube
* Searching for and creating videos
* Setting YouTube preferences
* Joining the YouTube community
* Promoting a business on YouTube
* Molding YouTube for you and your kids
YouTube is: A: an appliance; B: an ergonomic chair; C: the coolest video site on the Internet? If you answered A or B, you really need this book. But the fact that you own this book or are skimming through these pages at your favorite bookseller means you probably answered correctly, but need to know more about YouTube, which is great because these pages are written by a couple of card-carrying geeks who love video and think YouTube is the coolest thing since one-terabyte hard drives.
We cover a lot of ground in this book. In this chapter, we give you an overview of what we cover and how we cover it.
Charting YouTube
YouTube popped out of the woodwork when three PayPal employees brainstormed to start a video sharing service. They were at a party, and people were shooting digital photos and capturing videos. After the party, they tried to share the videos via e-mail but ran into difficulties due to differences in file formats and codecs. That's when the lads came up with the idea to start an online video sharing service. Their idea was probably one of those blinding flashes of inspiration, like the kind that wakes you from a sound sleep; the modern day equivalent to getting hit on the head with an apple and deciding that gravi
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