Thing #9: Video Sites
August 20, 2008 – 1:14 pmWithin the few years online video hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily to 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 embed clips into their own sites easily.
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 kids singing about bloopers here. 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 too offer. 
Take a look at the library YouTube videos highlighted at Tame the Web for more inspiration.
Discovery Resource:
Discovery Exercise:
- Explore YouTube & find a video worth adding as an entry in your blog.
- Create a blog post about your experience. What did you like or dislike about the site and why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or componets 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 for “Embeddable Player.” Wordpress allows this via the “Add media” button.
Other popular video hosting sites:
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3 Responses to “Thing #9: Video Sites”
Hi there,
Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your tametheweb.com.
Hobosic
By Hobosic on Jul 24, 2009
Hello,
Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.
By Pett on Jul 28, 2009
In Russia we also have a RuTube video community. It’s almost same like youtube.
By Sleep Walker's on Feb 1, 2010