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You can maintain multiple personalities on YouTube. It’s as easy as creating
multiple accounts. You use one username when you want to upload your
Dr. Jekyll videos, and log in under another username when you want to
upload your Mr. Hyde videos.
Touring the Tube
When you visit YouTube for the first time, you might be wondering what all
the hubbub is about. YouTube isn’t a particularly cool-looking site, which in a
way is a good thing. After all, the coolness is in the content, not the interface.
Nevertheless, you have to be able to find what you want quickly, which is
the hallmark of any good Web design. The YouTube Web site looks inviting
enough. Figure 1-2 shows the site as it appears to someone who hasn’t set up
an account. You’re greeted with little icons that have a plus sign in the lower-
left corner. We won’t tell you what that icon’s used for — at least not now.
Viewing videos on YouTube is easy. Just click an icon and then the page
changes, the video is served up — danger Will Robinson, video is loading —
and begins playing in a little window. Viewing a video is just that simple.
Each video comes complete with a controller that lets you pause the video
when you have to take care of some annoying task, like answering the phone
or responding to your boss’s e-mail. You can also control the volume of the
video. When the video finishes playing, you can replay the video, share it
with a friend, look for another video, or do something really boring — like
your day job.
Figure 1-1:
The YouTube
staff cele-
brating their
last day in
their original
office.
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