The document summarizes the origins and histories of several major websites and online phenomena:
- YouTube was founded in 2005 by former PayPal employees to share video online. It was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion.
- Twitter was conceived by Jack Dorsey as a way for individuals to communicate in "short bursts" with small groups via text messaging.
- Facebook began as a social network for Harvard students but grew to become the most popular social network worldwide by the late 2000s, while Myspace declined.
- Justin Bieber gained fame after his mother posted videos of him singing covers on YouTube, which were discovered by Scooter Braun and Usher.
3. • Created by Hurley (studied design), Chen and
Karim (studied computer science) in 2005.
• Idea: the creators were in a dinner and they
had problems when they were trying sharing
videos.
• In November 2006, YouTube was bought by
Google Inc. for $1.65 billion.
4. • Several countries have blocked access to
YouTube, like Turkey.
• YouTube has been criticized for failing to ensure
that uploaded videos comply with copyright
law.
5.
6. • While sitting in a park on a children’s slide and
eating Mexican food, Dorsey introduced the
idea of an individual using an SMS service to
communicate with a small group, inspired by
Flickr and the five-character length of American
SMS short codes.
• “A short burst of inconsequential information” –
Jack Dorsey
7.
8. • After the beginning of Friendster, several
eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts
saw its potential and decided create the most
popular social networking website in 2003.
• Since 2008, Myspace has been in a continuing
loss of membership.
11. Who The F#%$ is Justin Bieber?
• His Mother posted a video about
him on YouTube .She continued
to upload videos of Bieber singing
covers of various R&B songs,
• Scooter Braun, Found his Video
by accident
• Bieber was supported by Usher
• Bieber ,nowadays is one of the
most popular singers in the world,
and one of the most hated too
12. Rebecca Black And
Friday
• She recorded the song
“Friday “ and made a
videoclip
• Her parents paid US$ 2000
for it.
• Friday is cosidered one of
the worsts songs ever made
13. • Friday official video on
YouTube, is the video with
the greatest number of
dislikes, it had until the last
check 2.4 millions dislikes
• She gained more
than 1 millions dollars
at ITunes
• She receveid several
Death Threast,mainly
by phone and e-mail
14. Restart and “Puta falta de
sacanagem”
• They used MySpace and YouTube to spread
their music
• After a incident in
bookstore, They
became really
famous, because of
teenager who said
that the incident was
a “Puta falta de
Sacanagem”