What it would be like if inventors like Thomas Edison – who made the first light bulb – or the famous Wright Brothers – who invented the world’s first airplane – had access to the Internet and computer software that they could use to collaborate with their team members just like a modern-day office worker?

The following videos may offer you some hint:
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YouTube has updated their press page and it offers some new statistics around YouTube’s Partner program, mobile growth, monetization and more. Here’s a quick summary of the key new stats:

#1. YouTube users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week. In other words, 60% more content is getting uploaded to YouTube when compared to the previous year.

#2. Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day while YouTube mobile gets over 320M views a day. YouTube’s mobile traffic continues to grow at an impressive rate – up 60% since January this year. I wonder if YouTube has figured out a way to monetize their mobile content.

#3. 150 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook and every minute more than 400 tweets contain YouTube links. Google doesn’t exactly say how many YouTube videos are watched on Facebook. Read more…

Do you know youtube is now second most popular search engine in the internet after Google search, More then 35 hours of video stuff are uploaded every single minute. Here are some more stat about youtube…

• More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
• The equivalent of 150,000+ full-length movies in theaters each week
• More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
• 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
• YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages
• YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old
• YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010

Searching video in youtube is very easy, as you type anything on youtube there is almost something. Here are some more tricks or syntax for searching you tube… Read more…

The world’s largest video sharing website, Youtube.com, has just set another record. Google reported that the website is currently getting 2 billion hits a day. Also, on an average a user spends at least 15 minutes a day watching videos in Youtube. The website has come a long way, starting from the first video uploaded featuring co-founder Jawed Karim who posted a 19 second video on April 23, 2005, to getting 1 billion hits a day which the website achieved by October 2009. Read more…

I’m not entirely sure how I ended up finding this page on YouTube’s site, but I’m always interested in seeing real-world bandwidth tests, and YouTube probably burns up more bandwidth than any other domain on the planet, so they have some rich data from which to draw upon. Make sure you’re logged into YouTube, then check out their historical speed page. The above screenshot shows that I consume YouTube videos at 4.66Mbps average speed; I was surprised to see that the average GB rating, and the global rating, were  low.

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