Viral Video

Video is probably the most compelling of all the medias. It

stimulates both sight and hearing, while still enabling the

viewer to learn. In the early days of computers video files

were massive and could not be easily transfer ed via consumer

end Internet connections. Today, however, Internet sites such

as YouTube and Google Video have capitalized on new

technologies that make video files extremely small and still retain

acceptable fidelity.


YouTube is the most notable of the viral video sites,

primarily because of the massive amount Google paid

to acquire it. YouTube has one of the largest collection

of videos on the net, and as a result, the most contributors.



Google video stands apart from YouTube only in that

it that it hosts the most amount of feature-length videos.

These are particularly helpful for frontloading.



Sample links

http://video.on.nytimes.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18467963/