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Introduction
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years,
you’ve no doubt heard of YouTube, the video-sharing site
owned by Google. YouTube lets anyone post videos online
so that anyone else can watch. It’s a fun site and a popu-
lar one, constantly ranking in the top five of all sites on
the Web with more than 130 million visitors per month.
With hundreds of millions of videos on the YouTube site,
it would take a viewer half a millennium to watch them
all!
When I wrote the first edition of this book, back in 2008,
YouTube was a lot smaller than it is today—still big, and
still a major site, but less half the size. It’s more than dou-
bled in visitors and videos in the two years since then,
which is somewhat astounding. YouTube just keeps get-
ting bigger.
