Friday, July 20th, 2007...9:21 am
YouTube Custom Player Offers Limited Personalization
YouTube has added a very basic customization feature to its service. With only one style of background and nine color schemes to choose from it’s hardly something to get excited about.
At the moment this feature only allows you to display videos from your favourites or a custom playlist. You should be able to get around this for individual videos by creating a custom playlist for each one you want to embed, but it’s not a very practical solution.
While this is probably only the first step in YouTube’s personalization plans, it really does seem like a half-hearted effort. The official YouTube blog didn’t even bother to mention the new feature was available.
Link: YouTube Custom Player
5 Comments
July 20th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Hey Mate,
I last night placed a second you tube vid on my site, and the implemetation is horribly….haha..the design has to be rethought…
SO was looking through to make the best of a bad look, when I discovered the above mentioned feature.
Am amazed that, they have put out/released something so half baked as that.
July 20th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hmm, well, hopefully this is only the first step. StumbleUpon also needs to provide more personalization options, IMHO, not to mention Digg, etc… other social networking/news/video sites should take a cue or two from FaceBook and WordPress.
July 20th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
I was expecting so much more. Maybe with time?
July 21st, 2007 at 2:10 am
A small step, more things need to be added.
July 31st, 2007 at 2:14 am
Let’s have a look at” YouRTube Custom Player” http://www.giuseppecostanza.it/yourtube/index.php
you can choose RGB values for background and foreground, sound volume, autoplay, size, buffer time
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