Video and the Internet
Today even the most casual Web user watches video content online via sites like nytimes.com, cnn.com, or facebook.com. You see it almost everywhere. And not surprisingly, YouTube is now the second-most-popular search engine, after Google. In short, using your computer or smart phone to watch videos has become commonplace. Dozens of websites specializing in user-submitted videos sprouted up seemingly overnight. Led by YouTube and artcentric sites like Vimeo, the popularity of these websites has spread at a viral pace, fueled especially by the emergence of social-networking sites like Facebook. The success of YouTube and Vimeo (two of our favorite options for video uploading), 75