YouTube

My experience of YouTube has been quite an interesting one. One thing I can say after using "YouTube" is that it can be a real time waster (or should I say that it really eats up your monthly download limit!). Still I had a great time using it. Video (that is smooth and not stopping and starting all of the time) on the world wide web is still a relatively new thing and a great toy to play with. I had a play looking at some computer game footage (because I enjoy playing computer games) and some movie trailers. If I had a bigger download quota from my ISP (Internet Service Provider) I would have happily looked at quite a lot more video clips. But here we come to my main problem with using YouTube. The fact is that even a small video clip can take up quite a lot of your download quota. So I would suggest that if you intend to add a "YouTube" video to your website, make sure it is a relatively short one. Or, if it isn't short, split it up so that people can watch it in two (or more) parts.

After having a bit of a look at YouTube, I thought that I would pick a video of a golf shot. Here it is.
Click here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKcBTaTed0Q to see a good golf shot.

I choose this video because I am a golf fan (if you haven't guessed that already) and I was amazed that this golf shot actually happened. The golfer in the video hit the ball onto a hill at the back of the green and it stayed there for a few seconds and then it rolled slowly back down onto the green and into the hole! Incredible.

The main thing I didn't like about the site was the way that it was organised. You get the feeling that there is a lot there but you have to know exactly what you are looking for in order to find it. The browsing interface could have been a bit more user friendly.

I don't really see anything here that is of much particular use to libraries in particular, although I was intrigued with the "channels" tab. Under the channels tab, it appeared that people could have their own "YouTube" website where they could post their own videos. It appears that Barack Obama's YouTube website is very popular. People are then able to subscribe to these pages. Perhaps (I guess this goes in hand with the RSS) for libraries it would be good if that had their own channel page that people could then subscribe to??