Within the past few years, online video sharing and 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.
Do some searching around YouTube and see what the site has to offer. You’ll find everything from 1970s TV commercials and music videos from the 80s to library dominos and the upcoming presidential election 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. 
Discovery Exercise:
- Explore YouTube and 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 components of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?
OPTIONAL: Try placing the video inside your blog by using copy and paste to copy the “Embed” code. This is what I do to embed all the videos you see here on the Learn & Play blog. It’s easy!! Here’s a screenshot I did to show you where to find the embeddable code from YouTube:
Embed Code for YouTube
Two other popular video hosting sites:
I use eCommercePlayer for my hosting needs. I sell vinyl records, and ecommerceplayer is the most fully functional hosting, with the best quality I have found.
Give em a try, there free.
I can add my music to ebay with the click of one button, no paste and copying required.
Looks like they are compatable with craigslist and MySpace also.
I have been using them for quite a while now.
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Hi, Just a note re. Copying & Pasting to embed the code for a YouTube entry: the pasting needs to be done on the Edit HTML page, not the Compose page. Thanks to co-worker Erin for showing me how to do this.
Cheers! Carol
thanks for the share, Carol!
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