We noticed that the most popular videos at YouTube showed people making things.
From Steve Chen
Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.
It's just exciting to be able to see what someone around the world is eating in Sicily or Tokyo.
YouTube is a free service that is extremely easy to use. There are no downloads, and hundreds of audio and video formats are instantly converted to Flash, which makes it fast and easy for the community to watch and share video.
Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.
From our experiences with the site in Japan, we've come to ask, 'What can we learn about syndicating content from mobile devices and getting it up on YouTube?'
There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.
YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.
Our goal is to have YouTube on every screen - to take it from the PC to the living room and the mobile phone.
It is impossible to effectively monitor the huge volume of videos that are out there. It is often difficult to find out who owns the copyright on individual videos. Differing copyright laws in different countries also make the whole process harder.
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