The First Video Ever Uploaded on Youtube

Happy Birthday Youtube!!!

Ever thought how old Youtube is? 

Just 5 years. The Domain name www.youtube.com was registered on Feb 14th, 2005 and the First video uploaded on Youtube was on April 23rd, 2005. The Video of 18 seconds below is the First ever video uploaded on Youtube.

The title of the video is “Me at the zoo.” It was creation of  Yakov Lapitsky  showing Jawed karim who is one of Youtube's Founder at the San Diego Zoo.

As we all know what followed after, youtube grew at a tremendous speed and was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 Billion. Youtube gives us an example of how viral some things can grow. Its growth is uncomparable. Almost everybody who uses internet has used youtube atleast once. It provides platform for artists, politicians, businesses and even common people to use a worldwide platform to express their views.

Youtube has grown more than just free videos. Movie premieres, Live Matches and Movie rentals will make it grow more in the future. we wish all the very best to Youtube for its success.

Giant Squid seen in Orange County, California

Giant Squid Spotted in Orange County - California

People are surprised and excited to see Giant squid weighing up to 60 pounds (27 kilograms) swimming into waters off Newport Beach. Fishermen are taking full advantage of catching Giant Squid.

After getting noticed last week, Fishermen started using twilight fish catching to catch these Giant creatures.

The LA times reported that people are getting excited for two reasons. First groupof people who want to eat the Costly fish and others are those who want to see them in the sea and so the tourusts are also getting atracted to the area.

Robert Woodbury, from Newport Landing Sports fishing, said "Most of the fish we catch are better to eat, but they don't give you much of a fight." He said the squid were "trying to crawl around and blow ink all over everybody."

According to him , around 400 squids have been caught since Friday night. The average weight of the animals is found to be 20 to 40 lbs but some with 60 lbs have also been reported.

These type of Jumbo squids are called Humboldt squids. They squirt ink to protect themselves. Sometimes they can grow upto 6 ft and weight 100 lbs.

Recently Squid were found in the sea off Washington, San Diego and Oregon on the West Coast.

Orange County sports fishing businesses are really excited and in celebration mood due to the arrival of squid this season which is usually slow.

Chinese Government : No Involvement in Google Cyber Attacks (Hackings) - New Mashable

BEIJING - China denied involvement in Internet Hacking attacks and defended its online censorship as lawful and necessary Monday after the USA asked Beijing to investigate a computer attack against US Giant Google.

An unknown Chinese spokesperson form the IT Department said

“Accusation that the Chinese government participated in (any) cyberattack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless and aims to denigrate China.” The spokesperson also stated that “China’s policy on Internet safety is transparent and consistent.”

Xinhua cited the State Council, China's Cabinet, as criticizing what it called interference in the country's domestic affairs. "We have been hoping that Google will contact us so that we could have details on this issue and provide them help if necessary," Zhou Yonglin, the team's deputy chief of operations, said in an interview with Xinhua posted on the team's Web site.

But China is still suspicious. It took China 11 long days to come out and say that they were not involved in the cyber attacks on Google after google accused chinese government and Baidu for such attacks on Jan 12.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has criticized the censorship of cyberspace which also faced a strong counterattack from China. The Foreign Ministry on Friday said her remarks damaged bilateral relations, while a Chinese state newspaper said Washington was imposing "information imperialism" on China.

Google has not yet stopped censoring search results on google.cn, but Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday it will happen soon.

"We continue to follow their laws, we continue to offer censored results. But in a reasonably short time from now we will be making some changes there," Schmidt said.

Google says it remains optimistic that it can convince China's ruling party to loosen restrictions and censorship on the Internet, so it can continue business in China. Chinese government has given no indication of it willing to change its policies.

It seems like this issue is not going tobe resolved sooner and we will be getting interesting political and business news for a long time.

Source : AFP