Annotated videos come to YouTube

So you’ve been able to add annotations to video timelines for a little while now, but trust YouTube (well, Google I suppose) to one up that.

Not only can your annotations display right on the screen but you can make them interactive, as this card trick video illustrates.

The instructional videos that cover creating annotations highlights this connectivity well.  This is perfect for those “how to” videos that companies are putting up (your company is doing that, right?) as well highlighting and linking products within different videos together.

Now currently you can only annotate the videos you upload, but that’s not to say it couldn’t have negative impact if you are not actively involved with your online brand management.  Annotations do not show up on embedded videos (yet) and I have found no specifics to say that search engines can/would read the text and links but that should not stop you trying this cool feature out.

Technorati tags: youtube, annotations, video

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Monday Links - 2008-04-21

• http://www.twitterlocal.net/ - see who's twittering around you
• Crawling HTML forms the Google way
• Skype offers $9.95 plan - unlimited international calling for under $10
• ISP error could have hackers hijack the web - maybe
• New art from old video - (love the little things like @ 1:40)
• Social Graph videos - via O'Reilly Radar

Technorati tags: twitter, seo, google, forms, skype, dance, video, social graph

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Naked day and other stuff...

Happy CSS Naked Day!

It kinda crept up on me this year, hence not doing it on my blog or freelance web design site, though it still brings traffic to DMWebsites from last year.  Not sure if it’s just the word naked though ;-)

Other news today, Flickr has now started showing videos people have been uploading.  I like the way you can play the thumbnails and how they have kept the whole Flickr esthetic rather than going all YouTube.  Flock will have to do some catching up as their bar doesn’t recognise the videos yet.

Finally two twitter realted items:

• TwitterJammers is all about those people that tweet too much.  All the usual names are there - no danger of mine appearing anytime soon.
• TweetClouds is a site that makes a tag cloud from your tweets.  #sxsw was obviously something I went mad over - hence the @warrenellis fatwah.

Technorati tags: flickr, video, twitter, "css naked day", sxswi2008

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Could this make the iPhone really useful?

Embedded Video

I've mentioned shotcodes and qrcodes before, but I've just come across something that could kick their adoption into high gear.

iMatrix is a free app that runs on the iPhone.  With this app you can use the iPhones camera to capture different types of codes and use them in a variety of ways.  Now these codes have been around for sometime and their adoption in Japan, thanks in part to DoCoMo, is fairly widespread but here in the USA the adoption is nearly zero.

Well it seems that iMatrix may change that.  iPhones have had a dramtic adoption rate, with the mobile version of Safari now topping the chartsimatrix,shotcode,qrcode,mobile,.  By turning the iPhone into a capture and display device for these codes it really opens the opportunites.

Now I just have to find someone with an iPhone to test it on.  Yes I'm looking at you Clyde & Brent.

Technorati tags: qrcode, shotcode, 2dcode, iphone, imatrix, mobile, video

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Monday links - 2008-01-28

• Usability disaster story - via Simon Willison
• Sleeveface - meme that makes use of those old LP covers
• Another doomed music start-up? - via Mashable
• A not so-doomed music start-up? - via Julie
• It's Hot or Not, but for websites
• Launch your own LIVE 24/7 television station thanks to Mogulus

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Monday Links - 2007-10-22

• W3C launches Semantic Web logos
• Last.FM graphing from Aeracode
• Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone Reminders
• Free video chat and mail - I've signed up and will be trying it out
• Seth Godin on how to make a good enough website and a great website
• Are you McSure? -  just because it's funny :-)

Technorati tags: w3c, semantic, video, "seth godin"

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Is Google Video the newest torrent client?

The NLPC has released a pdf which shows there are hundreds of full length movies and TV series available to watch on Google Video. Has the removal of a specific length for content turned Google into the next torrent client? Those available include:

• Akira
• Click
• Dave Chappelle Show
• 300
• The Wire season 4

Though there are no links I'm sure you could use a certain search engine to find them ;-)

Technorati tags: google, video, bitorrent, free, illegal

Monday link list - 2007-07-02

With the 4th July Holiday and a mad couple of work days I've just got time to do a little house-keeping and post some older links stuck in my Flock clipboard.  Enjoy.

• The Appleseed Project [open source Social Networking software]- via Warren Ellis
• Viddler.com - Upload, Enhance, Share [tag your video]- via Warren Ellis
• Home - mymobilesite.net service [mobile web server]- via Warren Ellis
• KrawlerX [integrated social networking software suite]- via Enterprise 2.0
• 3D rotate command for Fireworks - via Alan Musselman

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podzinger changes their name...

Podzinger, the audio/video search engine, has now changed it's name to everyzing. The thing that makes everyzing different (and what turned us on to them a while ago for podcasts such as City Club) is their speech recognition software.  You can enter you RSS, Yahoo or iTunes feeds and everyzing will go and get the content, transcribe the content in to HTML and add jumplinks/bookmarks into the media. They have recently added and embeddable player, digg & stumbleupon links and a slew of other goodies. Now with an additional $10M in funding they are looking to improve that and help push the media content further into Google etc.

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Monday link list

• Paul wrote about the YouTube remixer.
• View your websites in different versions of IE by using NetRenderer - great for anyone building sites especially if your on a MAC.  They also give you were the different screen resolutions will cut off you content.
• Gez Lemon has updated his Colour Contrast extension for Firefox.  This now matches the latest version of WCAG2.0.
• Matt Dickman on the new Ask.com advertising.
• Initial post from the Media Hatch

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