New on YouTube: Collaborative Annotations
YouTube today introduced a new feature that allows publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. Just a few weeks ago, YouTube introduced a new annotation feature that made it easier for publishers to add speech bubbles or spotlights to their videos. Now, you can send a special link to your friends so that they can easily add their own witty comments to your videos.
YouTube's annotations editor now prominently features a link that you can share with your friends - or the whole Internet, if you choose to make it public. Commenters have to be logged in to YouTube to add annotations. The video's owner can moderate these comments, though it does look like all new annotations are automatically added to the video immediately; there doesn't seem to be a moderation queue.
Some video producers have found innovative ways of using YouTube's annotations feature, but often, they are only a distraction, and a lot of videos are simply better without them. Interestingly, YouTube acknowledged this in its announcement today and YouTube makes it pretty easy to turn annotations off altogether. Just go to your 'Account Settings' and look for the Annotations settings (obviously, you have to be logged in to YouTube for this to work).
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This is a great step for YouTube. This will add to the social aspect of it.
Thanks for the article ~
This feature is really a fun application. It makes me wonder what the possibilites are for business use, sharing and commenting on a service, etc.
I love YouTube. Nothing replaces it. But I do wonder about the digital security integrity of the service. Can you expand on that in any way? If I post videos up on the web what are the changes of my site being hacked?
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This well be a very useful tool to all youtube publishers and hope to the viewers too.
Nothing replaces it. But I do wonder about the digital security integrity of the service. Can you expand on that in any way? If I post videos up on the web what are the changes of my site being hacked?
This is a great step for YouTube. This will add to the social aspect of it.
After the recent sound issues with YouTube, they try to please the users by other options but they are forgetting that the main purpose of a video sharing website are the videos and their sound. If vimeo would allow longer video uploads for free, youtube would have a serious competitor.
This feature is not only social-oriented. The main goal is to allow search engines to index video content in easy way, I think.
Great article ~
I mentioned it on my Web 2.0 Blog here:
http://pixelvoiceblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/keeping-up-with-buzz.html
Beckett Gilchrist
Pixel Voice LLC
Web 2.0 Networking
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