For the last few months Facebook has been regularly posting promotional videos to its Career site, introducing prospective applicants to all the neat things that go on behind the scenes. Today they’ve uploaded one that’s particularly interesting, detailing the launch of the company’s Video feature. It’s been known for some time that Facebook Video was the result of one of the company’s famed Hackathons, but getting the chance to watch some of the first clips to appear on the platform is pretty darn cool. There’s also one nice piece of data tucked away in the video: Facebook saw over 1 billion video views last month. That’s still far less than that 1.2 billion YouTube sees every day, but it undoubtedly makes Facebook one of the top video sharing sites on the web (it’s also the largest photo sharing site).
Of course, the best part of the video comes from a Facebook engineer named Putnam as he describes Mark Zuckerberg’s initial reaction to the Video idea. Just watch the clip below.
Also be sure to check out the full video, though beware of the ridiculously sappy piano music playing throughout.
LOL! “yah this seems kinda good”
Brilliant.
In my opinion the video is ridiculously
Ridiculously what?
Ridiculously ridiculous, I’d say.
And: 40 hours for the product. Sometimes you’d think it was FB that was built in 40 hours.
perhaps you ‘re confusing facebook with twitter? or else not very knowledgable of the internets?
True the backgrund piano music sucks!
what’s wrong with it?
btw. that company, facebook, they are huuge aren’t they? why is techcrunch covering so little of them?
Because there is nothing new coming up with Facebook regularly!
Do you own the rights to this piano music? If not you better remove this video from FB quickly or I’ll start complaining about the fact that you removed some of my very personnal videos (like my brothers’ wedding) from my FB just because I didn’t own the rights to the music I used in the final cut.
Now stop masturbating about you changing the world and allow me to share my PERSONAL videos with MY FRIENDS and FAMILY with whatever f****ing music I want without me having to learn how to play 20 different instruments so I can compose the music I need for these videos myself !!!!!!!! I’ll use vimeo in the meantime wankers.
Else you’re doing a great job
(just had to be fair)
This is exciting
I wonder how long it will be until Facebook catches up to Youtube? 6 months? A year?
It’s a little different. Not what I would do for my Ford Fiesta mission.
It’s a little diferent.
just because a product reaches a lot of people, doesn’t mean it’s changing the world. lol
Its impossible Facebook will survive the hype it is getting now… so is twitter…
couple of years back it was myspace & Digg…please enlighten what is that Facebook doing which myspace hadn’t tried before ?
I think most of us need a drug a stimulant which would make us believe that logic and reasoning is out of the world wide web .
Please does anyone remember cuil ?
or shhhh bing ……
“please enlighten what is that Facebook doing which myspace hadn’t tried before ?”
Not much. Just doing it a whole lot better. Course Myspace has now copied many of Facebook’s features.
Facebook copied a lot of myspace features first. But they improved upon it which makes it excusable. But when the reverse started to happen, the improvements weren’t up to par.
1B is 20% less than 1.2B, not *far* less
A month is longer than a day, though. Read the paragraph again.
Sorry, Robin. I stand corrected.
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I would like to share my videos using Facebook video, but, unfortunately, it lacks the many features youtube has.
Wow, this ought to add a little money to their bottom line. : )
“It’s like the Apollo 13 landing” . . . Wow. seriously? I didn’t realize how important today was.
Hey! What if I like ridiculously sappy piano music!
That’s why we have tokbox. Or even better, email the video to a friend instead of using a their party platform.
They can’t justify that there’s magic with FB.
“PR flacks set your hyperbole to stun, we’re going in!”
Facebook is over the hill.
Seriously? Did these idiots liken the launch of Facebook’s video feature to the MOON LANDING?
This type of undeserved self-importance is why people think Zuck is an ass and his sister is a spoiled brat. It’s a web site for “What State You Should Live In?” quizzes and status updates like “Adam is now making a cup of tea.” It’s artless entertainment, like reality TV. Get over yourselves.
No, they didn’t compare it to the “MOON LANDING” – they compared it to the Apollo 13 landing back on Earth.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Apollo+13
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To the young guy with big closing words: please dream beyond Facebook. Dream bigger.
I liked the energy and excitement, but disliked the arrogance. Perhaps it is just youthful optimism, but I don’t see any link between safely saving a failed space mission and implementing a web page where you can upload videos. Had NASA failed with Apollo 13, human lives would have been lost and America’s ego destroyed. Had the video page not worked, there would not have been an arrogant self advertisement for a ‘world changing’ product.
wow can you imagine the bill for monthly internet bandwich?
when will they start making money, not to mention break the even??
jesus, how does their HD video load so quickly?!?!
HD quality means High Definition, Nice video. really useful for facebook. Thanks for sharing