YouTube introduces annotations

Written on June 4, 2008 – 5:40 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

I’ve read some rather interesting news on Gabe Jacobs’ blog. He reports that YouTube has added an annotation feature. Users can now give background IN the video, instead of the ‘more info’ box. Comes in handy when you don’t have the time to edit the whole video in iMovie. It reminds me of the Flickr note-functionality, only this one looks more fancy as it showed against a moving background:

As Gabe notes, YouTube should add a public note feature as well. On one condition though, that users must switch it on. Otherwise other people can ruin your video by adding Bob Saget-like lines. We can’t have that, as we don’t want to go back to the pre-YouTube area. Now you can just skip the America’s Most Funniest homevideos-like content. Let’s keep it that way.

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3 comments to “YouTube introduces annotations”

By Gabe Jacobs on Jun 15, 2008

Hey, thanks for mentioning my blog, but I would appreciate it if you would link to me so people can find my site. Thanks!

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Jun 16, 2008

Hi Gabe, the link has been there all the time under ‘reports’.

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By Gabe Jacobs on Jun 16, 2008

Woops! Haha, you can delete my comment if you want….

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