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Eliza 23/07/08, 17:26

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Indecision - an interactive hyper-videoblog story by Rupert Howe

Maybe you all know this already, but YouTube has recently added some new features to the site, under the rather dry title of YouTube Annotations, which allow you to add interactive commentary to your films. Another possibility is to add hyperlinks from your film to others, as is demonstrated in this sweet videoblog by Rupert Howe - watch the film until near the end, when it comes over all choose-your-own-adventure…

Update: As Rupert has noted below, you have to watch the video on YouTube itself to get the hyperlink bits to work (ah technology, why must you always be so complex?). Click here to view the effect in action.

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Hah! :)

I just got through reading my morning crop of CR blog posts and there this is!

BUT you actually have to go to YouTube to do the Choose Your Own Adventure bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQg_LCq_T8&fmt=18

Annotations are in Beta and YouTube have only activated them for videos ON the site, not in embedded videos.

The idea isn’t new, of course (books in the 80s, CDi in the 90s) but what I’m excited about that it’s so easy to use and to create, and that it’s on YouTube. Hopefully this will lead to a lot more networked video.

And when they turn it on in Embedded videos, a lot more people will use hypervideo to do what hypertext does.

Posted by Rupert on 23/07/08, 5:53 pm

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