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Youtube Video Annotations

YouTube recently launched a feature that allows you to embed clickable regions within a video.   Unfortunately you are prevented from linking out to external sites and can only link to other Youtube videos or search results.  So while the feature might lead to interesting pick-your-plot vidoes it isn’t going to change the world.

The ability to link-out would be a huge benefit for affiliate marketers looking to drive traffic to their campaigns.  If external links were allowed you could imagine a great deal of effort would be used to produce viral videos that ultimately are used to sell a product (the soap opera model). Until then, the only way to add links are to use services like LinkedTube which lets you add links to YouTube videos embedded on your site.

Checkout this demo:

How are you watching Obamapalooza?

I’ll be watching using this slick app by Ustream from my iPhone.   I downloaded from the App store in a few minutes and was able to pick a feed.  Decent video so far, we’ll see how it handles a million streams or so.

Twitter as the “first responder” breaking news source

So here’s my first ridiculous attempt at video blogging.  I can’t seem to find the time to sit down and craft full fledged blog entries so I figure I’ll give video blogging a stab and see if I can knock out things more frequently.   It’s duly noted that I should cut out my use of the word ‘like’ if I want to sound less like a teenage schoolgirl.

Twitter has been taking off for a while but I’ve had a hard time devoting time to the service.  Personally I had my aha moment watching live reports from the Hudson river airplane crash.  Twitter is what you want it to be and if you don’t want to devote hours a day tweeting with people then don’t.   For me, Twitter is a fantastic way to get ‘first responder’ breaking news accounts.