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Within the past year online video hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily upload and share videos on the web. Among all the web 2.0 players in this area, YouTube is currently top dog serving up over 1 million video views a day and allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also easily embed clips into their own sites.Do some searching around YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find everything from 1970s TV commercials and 60s music videos to library dominos and fun news items. Of course, like any free site you’ll also find a lot stuff not worth watching too. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore and see for yourself what the site has to offer. :)
Discovery Exercise:
1. Explore YouTube & find a video that you enjoy watching and would recommend.
2. Create a blog post about your experience with YouTube and include the URL to the video (you can copy & paste it from the address bar in your browser). Some questions you could consider:
What did you like or dislike about the site? Why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or components of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?
OPTIONAL: Try placing the video inside your blog using the copy and paste code for the "Embeddable Player”, see the diagram below for instructions.
Other popular video hosting sites are Yahoo Videos and Google Videos
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