Love it, it is yours and here to stay

Dec 14, 2007 19:41 GMT  ·  By

Bored to tears this morning, I just let the links that people sent me to check them out to pile up in my inbox and the IM windows to do the same, until all of my task bar glowed orange. That wasn't the desired effect, but it sort of did the trick. Browsing through all of them proved to be a more difficult task than I had thought, because all of a sudden, interesting things were shooting at me from all angles instead of just finding a couple every hour worth reading.

Anyway, among all of the links, I found one to Haochi of Googlified that took my breath with anticipation as I heard my heart pounding, clicking the link: new viewing of the related videos? That should throw away the now-all-so-old mode and the boredom it carried with it. Click the full screen button and wait for the video to finish playing, and then click the new button that wasn't there before, next to the "Play" one and you'll get to it.

From what I've been able to see, after playing around with it, is that if while using this new visualization mode you click on another thumbnail of a video, the two will be connected on the screen through a line and so will the next you decide to watch, starting from the same place. I just wanted a 20 foot LCD, so that I could track about one hundred such videos and videos related to the latter, and so on and so forth. It would definitely have been a site to see, but at the moment, my laptop is still waiting for the 20 footer.

Just like the embeddable player, the videos found this way are run within the player, without being sent to a new page. Haochi notes, though, that "A difference is that the player on YouTube.com is (in theory) capable of displaying all the videos on YouTube, instead of just a few on embeddable player." Come to think about it, I don't really mind that all that much, at the moment I just want it to look pretty.