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Embed Or Link To A YouTube Video With Annotations Turned Off Or On

When you embed a YouTube video in your website, the annotations are not turned on by default. The viewer has to click the small annotations link to turn on video annotations for the YouTube video. (see example on how to turn on video annotations for a YouTube video). There can be situations when you may [...]

Reduce The Loading Time Of YouTube Video Player: Load YouTube Videos Onclick

Depending on the internet connection speed, the YouTube video player can take a significant amount of time to load in the visitor’s browser. If you have a webpage where you have embedded a good number of YouTube videos, it might slow down the page on the client’s end. This is because the YouTube video player [...]

Now You Can Watch 3D Videos On YouTube And Convert Your Videos To 3D Too

Last year, YouTube rolled out an interesting feature (part of their video creator tools program) which allowed YouTube creators to convert a YouTube video into 3D and allowed viewers to watch 3D YouTube videos. Creating a 3D video in a real world scenario is a really laborious job, as you would have to setup two video cameras, shoot [...]

How To Download YouTube Videos On Your Android Phone Or Tablet Device

Although there are numerous ways to download YouTube videos from a regular desktop computer, there seems to be no easy way to download YouTube videos on Android phones and tablets.  A quick search in the market for “YouTube video downloader” shows very irrelevant results and fact is that none of the free YouTube apps in [...]

YouTube Adds Support For Resumable Video Uploads

If your internet connection is slow and drops frequently, you might have noticed that uploading a video at YouTube gets truncated, when your connection drops. Lets say you are uploading a video of length 10 minutes but after a while, you find that the upload got stuck in the middle. One of the major reasons [...]

How To Showcase Any Video On Your YouTube Channel

Consider this. You love to do video screencasts about your product or blog and have a very active YouTube channel. In addition to your own videos, you want to showcase videos made by other people on your YouTube channel in the sidebar, so that your channel subscribers are exposed to more useful content and interesting [...]

How Multiple People Can Collaborate On A Single YouTube Channel

You can let anyone upload videos to your YouTube account or channel by sharing the mobile upload email address with them. Anyone can upload videos to your YouTube channel by attaching the video clip to an email message and sending it over to that secret email address, associated with your YouTube account.

YouTube Now Lets You Remove It’s Logo From YouTube Video Player

Don’t like the presence of YouTube logo on a video and want to embed a YouTube video without the logo on your website? Now you can. YouTube has pushed two minor upgrades to it’s video player. First upgrade is better preview thumbnails of your video which was a little choppy earlier. There is no way [...]

Use YouTube’s Artist Page To Find All Music Videos Of A Singer Or Band

Just perform a simple search for your favorite music band or singer at YouTube and you are shown tons and thousands of music videos and playlists. Most of these videos are uploaded by other YouTube users across the globe while some of these videos may be official. Although YouTube has an official music videos page [...]

Problems Adding YouTube Video in WordPress Posts ?

The visual post editor of WordPress is not very good in handling embed codes of web videos that are hosted on video sharing websites like YouTube, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Vimeo or MySpace. While every video site provides it’s own embed code for videos, which needs to be pasted in the HTML source of a blog post [...]

Delicious.com Gets A New Home

Delicious.com – a popular online bookmarking service has been acquired by YouTube founders Steve chen and Chad Hurley. Named as AVOS.com the new startup will launch on July 2011