Youtube - new features provide annotations and interactivity to your video

It'll be a lot easier to explain if you clicked on the video below (it has to popup to Youtube's site) and try it yourself. It's an interactive video "guessing game".

Playing an embedded video won't work (Beta version for now).



From Youtube's site - Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos! Use them to:

* Add background information about the video.
* Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene)
* Link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video
* All of the above!

You control what the annotations say, where they appear on the video, and when they appear and disappear.

This will be a cool feature for adding subtitles / tips to your videos, or doing product placement with Youtube videos.

Image courtesy of Youtube.com

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