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YouTube launches new look for embedded videos
YouTube has been slowly rolling out a new interface for its flash videos, making it easier for viewers to get sucked into hours and hours of watching pointless online videos of cats dancing.
The new interface shows related videos when you scroll over the bottom of the screen with your cursor. While selected videos on YouTube have had the new design for a while, it's just starting to pop up on videos embedded in blogs.
So now visitors to your website can watch a bunch of videos that you'd never intended to show them without leaving your page. That's, umm.. cool, right?
YouTube's also made it a bit easier to embed videos on your site by adding buttons with the URL and embed code at the end of the video.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
The new interface shows related videos when you scroll over the bottom of the screen with your cursor. While selected videos on YouTube have had the new design for a while, it's just starting to pop up on videos embedded in blogs.
So now visitors to your website can watch a bunch of videos that you'd never intended to show them without leaving your page. That's, umm.. cool, right?
YouTube's also made it a bit easier to embed videos on your site by adding buttons with the URL and embed code at the end of the video.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Jordan Running said 12:40PM on 6-07-2007
This interface is so obnoxious. When I'm watching a video I don't want something to pop up and obscure it every time I accidentally move my house over it (and I'm the kind of person who's always fidgeting with the mouse). It would be fine if it only popped up after the video was over, but as it is it drives me NUTS.
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Dave Chartier said 12:46PM on 6-07-2007
Sounds like someone needs some CMA help (Constant Mouser's Anonymous)! :)
My gripe is that the mouseover functionality either in Flash or simply YouTube's implementation is really buggy (I'm on Mac OS X in Camino 1.5, FWIW). Sometimes when I mouse over the new controls appear, but moving away doesn't make them disappear. I either have to click somewhere else on the 'dead' page of the browser, and once or twice I had to click outside the browser and click back in.
In other news, I hate Flash for most of the things it's used for these days, and I hate Flash video even more.
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Me said 1:53PM on 6-07-2007
That is annoying. I was attempting to watch a video with subtitles earlier today, and every time I made a false move with mouse, there went the subtitles for 5+ seconds, which forced me to rewind.
To have one-sixth of the screen covered every time that happens is too much for me. It needs to be toned down.
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