Social Network, ICT, Web Comunication

Jawed Karim doesn’t begrudge the spotlight on YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

Still, Karim, 27, would like more people to know that he was YouTube’s third co-founder — and, he says, the guy who first suggested the idea that became the company. “It took the three of us,” he said Wednesday.The story of YouTube’s birth, like that of many companies, is more nuanced than the one widely known. In many accounts, Hurley and Chen take center stage. If he’s mentioned at all, Karim is cast in a bit part, ending when he assumed an advisory role after leaving YouTube last year for graduate computer studies at Stanford.

Karim says his idea for what became YouTube sprang from two very different events in 2004: Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction,” during a Super Bowl show, and the Asian tsunami.

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( Usatoday )