Thursday, June 7, 2007

Witness What King James of Basketball Can Do

Cleveland is famous for several things -- among them are Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, and of course, the Cavaliers basketball team with LeBron James -- see for yourself why:



LeBron James scores 29 of the last 30 points for the Cavs in their Game 5 win over the Pistons. Author: NBA

This video shows the new YouTube player with embedded related videos. Webmasters and blog owners may not like the idea of showing "related" videos on their web sites without any editorial control from them. YouTube folks have thought about it and there is a way to show only the intended video and nothing else: you can modify the video URL by attaching a rel=0 parameter to the video. i.e. http://www.youtube.com/v/&rel=0

Update 06/08/2007:
YouTube listened to user feedback and rolled back some annoying features of the new interface (via Google Operating System).

References:
New! Related Videos Appearing on Embeds. YouTube Blog.
New YouTube Interface for Embedded Videos. Google Blogoscoped, 2007.

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