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nudge? tickle? thx!

steve — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:45:54 +0000

nudge? tickle? thx!

Could we have a JSON

English — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:56:16 +0000

Could we have a JSON subtitle format in unicode, rather than the current bulky method of storing chinese characters as images??

looks awesome

Eric — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:15:59 +0000

This looks awesome! Could we get an update on the status of Annotube?

Thanks for all your hard work, Eric

Well, for me it

Rickey — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:00:21 +0000

Well, for me it

Yes, of course Michael,

Jorden — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:11:58 +0000

Yes, of course Michael, I’m waiting for some more details. As for me I’d like to get something witch will take care of connecting the events and watching for the times. I’d like to know more about AnnoTube.

Sounds like me

Michael Geary — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:57:58 +0000

Your programmer sounds just like me. After all, I’ve been promising this plugin for ages now!

I actually did spend some time polishing it up, and now that I have that Google voter info project out of the way, I’m going to publish it right now before I get busy with something else!

Sorry for the delays…

time saver

david nicholas — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:31:03 +0000

Our programmer has been promising to do a similar plug in for ages now, - so thanks for doing his work

Very Excited!

Minneapolis Guy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:05:10 +0000

Wonderful idea! I can’t wait to see it in action. I have been looking for a way to do this off-site from google and automate the process. Can the file use to annotate be filled with .xml?

Great for Content Developers

Michael Bolger — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:56:40 +0000

‘a long

Been working on it :-)

Michael Geary — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:28:34 +0000

It’s been a long “few days,” hasn’t it? {embarrassed grin}

I actually have been working on it and have added the features I was missing to finish the annotation of my own video. Almost ready for you to try out. (Dare I say “a few days?” Hopefully sooner!)

Sorry about the delay, and thanks for your patience.

Any plans to develop Annotube any further?

Michael Bolger — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:29:41 +0000

Greetings Michael Geary, do you have any plans to develop Annotube any further?

“please watch this page for updates over the next few days”

Thank You Michael Bolger

This looks like a cool use

Adult — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:22:04 +0000

This looks like a cool use of JSON. It begs the question: Could we have a JSON subtitle format in unicode, rather than the current bulky method of storing chinese characters as images? I have also noticed that Firefox have switched over from their old bulky method of storing bookmarks in HTML format to storing them in JSON.

This is a nice section of code

Richard Metcalfe — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:13:41 +0000

Hey, this is going to be great i like this idea.

You'll be the first to know :-)

Michael Geary — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:20:00 +0000

Sorry, guys, I’ve been swamped this last couple of weeks on another project. Belated thanks to all for the kind words.

I expect to be able to get a day free this week to work on this and get a not-so-pre-alpha version ready…

Any updates?

Matt — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:07:26 +0000

I noticed you said it would be a while before you got anything new up.. any chance of revealing when? :)

Annotate your YouTube video with AnnoTube

Michael Geary — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:57:11 +0000

AnnoTube is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to embed a YouTube video in your page along with an index and notes that are displayed and synchronized with the video as it plays. Each note can be an HTML snippet, or a URL to be loaded into an IFRAME, or even a JavaScript function to be run when a specific time in the video is reached.

Here’s a demo: the Mapping the Votes talk I gave at Google in April, with annotations provided by AnnoTube. This solves a mistake I made in this talk: Like many speakers, I left the text too small in my code examples. It looked fine to the people in the room, but the code is really hard to read in the YouTube video. But with the annotations I can put big, readable text right next to the video at the right time.

Fair warning: At this moment, I’ve only annotated the first 15 minutes of the video, and all of the notes so far are actually web pages in an IFRAME. Also, the AnnoTube plugin itself isn’t quite ready for general use. This is all a bit of work in progress, which started with something I put together for fun during the Google I/O conference. I’m only posting now because the YouTube API team is mentioning it in a post of their own, so please watch this page for updates over the next few days.

For a start, here’s what the timeline for my talk looks like (with URLs shortened to avoid long lines):

$.annotube({

"video": "QIPKmkeMuz4",

"timeline": [

"00:00|Introduction: Pamela Fox",

"00:14|GAsync() API|https://mg.to/...",

"00:58|Iowa Mapplet|https://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=...",

"01:37|Mapplet Performance",

"02:07|Iframes and Security",

"02:46|The Hash Hack",

"04:56|Iowa Maps API Map|https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/...",

"05:55|Mouseovers in API and Mapplet",

"06:25|New Hampshire API Map|https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/...",

"07:06|My Biased Map",

"07:35|Three Kinds of Bias",

"07:54|Winner Takes All?",

"08:42|Where are the Delegates?",

"08:50|Big County, Little County",

"09:45|A Good-Looking Map",

"10:10|Another Form of Bias?",

"11:18|Tiles and Tweets|https://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=...",

"11:45|A Twittervision Clone",

"13:05|Proportional Pins|https://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=...",

"14:35|The Gadget Version|https://gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=...",

]

});

As you can see, it’s just a simple list of times, titles, and links or HTML snippets. AnnoTube takes care of connecting the events and watching for the times you specify.

More details soon… Thanks for your interest and patience!