While usually regarded as a dangerous playground for comment trolls and tween video tributes, YouTube is still very much a part of the Googlesphere. Thankfully, that also means that there is more in store for the site than simply video streaming.
YouTube is a dangerous place for commentators. While you're evading flame-throwers, you're also trying to maintain that any given video has a fair rating. If you're a frequent streamer on YouTube, comment search is a great way to mediate and keep the environment so fresh and so clean by eliminating distasteful words and phrases.
Since YouTube introduced closed captioning, users everywhere have enabled this feature to reach out to fans across all spectrums, regardless of disability or computer volume. CaptionTube allows you to type in the captions as the video is playing, so you can accurately insert the proper onomatopoeia at the exact second it takes place in the video.
You've seen them, and you've probably clicked them. Video annotations are the interactive links and notes that tend to pop up in YouTube videos from time to time, and now you can add them just as freely. Stick them on your video to point out important elements of the scene, or use the URL insert to drop in a point-to arrow or link for something like a product mention or to bring attention to something going on in the background.
We've been hearing so many things about this illusive HTML5, but some of us have yet to see its magical powers. Fortunately, YouTube's got an experimental version of their videos in HTML5 form. Now, the next question is, will it work for the iPad?
We love using YouTube to preview bands and artists before we purchase their music from iTunes. The YouTube Music Discovery gadget makes playlists and discovers new artists and music videos for you, similar to the Last.Fm and Pandora algorithms.
Bandwidth got you down? Fear not! YouTube has a super-low latency option that allows you to view videos using the least bit of bandwidth and memory resources as possible.
