14 DAY TRIAL // YouTube is experimenting with a very interesting feature, a page aggregating all of the YouTube videos posted or embedded by a blog along with short snippets of the posts. This creates a de facto channel for any blog on the web, but one that lists content it posted but not necessarily uploaded itself.
Google hasn't said anything about the new pages and there don't seem to be that many of them, for now, so most likely YouTube is still only experimenting with the concept.
But one such page was spotted by Philippe Lagane of Accessoweb.com. It contains a list of all videos posted on the site, in chronological order, as well as part of the article containing them, for context.
The whole list reads like a list of blog feed, of course, containing only posts with YouTube videos in them. The page also links to the source website as well as to the individual posts.
YouTube users can either play the videos in a new playlist or add them to their existing ones, such as "watch later" or any custom playlist they have saved. This is pretty much all there is to the page, but it's pretty interesting even so.
YouTube aggregates the videos from all manner of blogs, self-hosted, from WordPress.com, Blogger and so on. At the moment, a Google search for these pages only returns 44 results, so either Google hasn't gotten around to indexing them or there are very few of them.
The new feature is based on some existing technology. Already, YouTube marks videos that get a lot of traffic from one source, particularly popular ones, with the label "As seen on:". Each section, when browsing by categories, also has a "Popular Around the Web" segment which lists videos are getting a lot of views on popular sites. [via Google OS]