YOUTUBE IS 20 _ 20 years ago this month (April 23) the first YouTube video was uploaded.
• The first YouTube video, Me at the Zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video has just over 354 million views.
• The domain name YouTube.com was activated on February 14, 2005.
• YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
• 500 hours of video is uploaded every minute. This equates to 30,000 years of video content added annually.
• We watch over 1 billion hours of YouTube videos a day.
• The video with the highest number of views is Baby Shark Dance y Pinkfong Kids’ Songs & Stories, with over 15 billion views. (Here’s a Wikipedia list that tracks the top videos.)
HOW TO GET A BABY TO SLEEP IN 42 SECONDS USING A TISSUE _ If you’re the parent or caregiver for a baby who’d like to help them get to sleep quicker, I (YOU) was going through my show notes and rediscovered the story of Nathan Dailo from Sydney, Australia, who uploaded a video to YouTube which shows his method for getting his then three-month-old son Seth to close his eyes and get some rest. Dailo strokes Seth’s face repeatedly, and very gently, with a sheet of tissue paper. In 42 seconds, the baby is asleep. • VIDEO
SURPRISING THING THAT AFFECTS MANY RESTAURANT REVIEWS _ Restaurant reviews are all over the web, but a study found one surprising theme alters many of them: the weather. In a study paper titled “Demographics, Weather and Online Reviews,” 1.1 million online reviews of 840,000 restaurants were analyzed, looking for external factors in the data. In other words, they wanted to figure out what makes us like or dislike a restaurant, beside the restaurant itself. Reviewers consistently gave worse ratings when it was raining or snowing outside than when it was clear. And reviewers usually liked restaurants better on warm and cool days rather than very hot or very cold ones.
