26Hi-TechThe Quiet Media RevolutionLike most people, I still associateYouTube with a place to kill 30minutes looking at cute babies, dogsand cats making me laugh. But thatis the old YouTube. Don’t get mewrong, YouTube will always havevideos to give you a chuckle or an“awwww, how cute”. But YouTubeis growing up as well.YouTube got its start in early 2005.It was founded by Chad Hurley,Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, whowere all early employees of PayPal.YouTube was started as an angelfundedenterprise from a makeshiftoffice in a garage. Funny how manytech start-ups began life in a garage...All that ever grew in my garage wasmold on the lawnmower!By July 2006, 100 million videoclips were viewed daily on YouTube,with an additional 65,000 newvideos uploaded every 24 hours. Thewebsite averaged nearly 20 millionvisitors per month. Time magazineeven made YouTube its Person of theYear for 2006!Google was in a buying mood in2007 and dropped $1.65 BILLION(in stock) to acquire YouTube. Notbad for a 2 year old company...right? All the original owners andemployees were instant millionaires.In 2007, YouTube was measuredby bandwidth and it’s reported thatit used more internet bandwidth thanthe whole internet did in the year2000! That’s a success in any book.Fast forward 5 years and Googlepulls in nearly $2 billion a yearin YouTube advertising revenue.But that’s still a drop in the bucketcompared to the $60 billion earnedby broadcast networks. That’snothing to sneeze at for an infantbroadcasting source.The five major U.S. televisionnetworks are NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox,and The CW. The first three beganas radio networks: NBC and CBSin the 1920s, and ABC was spun offfrom NBC in 1943. Fox is a relativenewcomer that began in 1986. TheCW was created in 2006 when UPNmerged with The WB. So given thatthe main TV broadcasters have analmost 90-year jump on YouTube, Idon’t think YouTube is off to a badstart! The top 5 YouTube channelscurrently (based on subscribers) havea combined 30 million registeredsubscribers and over 9 BILLIONviews of their videos!!!To rely less on viral cat videos orSouth Korean dancing viral videos,Google has announced that it’sadvanced funds to content producerslike Jamie Oliver and Michael Cerato create 60 new original channelsin France, the UK, Germany and theUS.That’s in addition to the 100channels it already created last year!Google also said it would take thatoriginal launch up a notch in 2013by providing even more funds tothe most successful efforts by artistslike Jay Z and Saturday Night Live’sAmy Poehler!Needless to say, comedy channelsare a big part of the new line-ups, butso are music and cooking! Nothinglike seeing a recipe being preparedand being able to pause it as youcook along! No excuse for yournext lasagna not to come out pictureperfect next time!The company didn’t say exactlyhow much cash would be rainingdown to all those channels stateside orabroad. But considering the amountit recently spent just marketing them,you may want to pull the triggeron that new cinema camera, afterall. You too could become a mediamogul!This past year, YouTube joined thebig boys. A big <strong>2012</strong> milestone wasthe site’s participation in this year’sSummer Olympics. YouTube did livestreaming online for NBC Universalin the U.S. and it also provided videocoverage of the events for more than60 other countries around the world.In <strong>2012</strong>, YouTube said that roughly60 hours of new videos are uploadedto the site every minute, and thataround three quarters of the materialcomes from outside the U.S. Thesite hit another milestone with eighthundred million unique users amonth.YouTube unites the world throughvideo. It also looks like its financialfuture is well on the way to being asuccess, as a new media alternativeto the conventional broadcastingnetworks. Now why didn’t I think ofthat while tinkering in MY garage?Now on a side note, I’ve beenasked a lot about starting classes forsome computer basics. So I’m puttingthe call out for people interested. Itprobably would be a group, weeklyevent, with limited class size. Thoseinterested can email me and we’ll tryand get something up and running formid-November.That’s all my time for now. See youagain next week... until then,Remember, only safe Internet!Ron can be found at CANMEXComputers. Sales, Repairs,Networking, Wi-Fi, Hardwareupgrades, Graphic Design, DataRecovery, House-calls available.www.RonnieBravo.com Cellular044 (322) 157-0688 or just email toCanMex@Gmail.com<strong>SATURDAY</strong> 3<strong>ISSUE</strong> <strong>211</strong> | <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2012</strong> <strong>FRIDAY</strong> 9
The New York Times Tuesday Crossword PuzzleBrain Teasers 27Solution toCrosswordon Page 24SUDOKU!Sudoku is a logic-based placement puzzle.The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in eachrow, column and group of squares enclosed by the bold lines (also called abox). Each box must contain each number only once, starting with variousdigits given in some cells (the “givens”). Each row, column, and region mustcontain only one instance of each numeral.Completing the puzzle requires patience.It is recommended as therapy because some studies have suggested theymight improve memory, attention and problem solving while staving offmental decline and perhaps reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.Solution to Sudoku on Page 24<strong>SATURDAY</strong> 3<strong>ISSUE</strong> <strong>211</strong> | <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2012</strong> <strong>FRIDAY</strong> 9
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