annotations FAIL!

I don't think a short attention span is enough justification to say this is a bad example of a video. If people aren't interested in a subject you can't force them to be interested, but at the same time, the video's visualizations showed without telling where someone who wanted to know more where to look. Even in the video they annotated that this is more of a research jumping off point, that it is indeed a compressed version, and even paid a little lip service to other complications if only to get you going on your own.

I spent a good few hours looking at ISIS, trying to figure it out myself a week before this video came out, now that this video is out it did the same in about 4 and a half minutes. Granted, this is without on demand sourcing of sources, but like I said above, its a great primer. For people that want to know and don't, this is a good place to start. For those who don't care why does it matter?

Yes, sorry a little overreacting. In my defense, this site does chomp off the annotations, and, for whatever reason, the YouTube links were not working when I first looked (I promise, though now I think I'm imagining things), so it was kind of a black hole for my video when I first saw it, I wasn't familiar with the site, and another site WAS ripping it off, which kinda put me in a bad mood.

Glad you liked the video, must've woken up on the wrong side of the bed.

To my eye, it seems like YouTube has been actively trying to piss users off with shit like this for a while now. I don't have enough of a tinfoil hat on to actually think that is true, but it sure seems like it.

This guy hit a lot of the issues, but here's my rundown of annoyances:
* I've used GMail forever. In the past year, Google decided that means that I want their services for everything. YouTube, Google+, etc. etc. No, I don't.

* GMail inbox now has handy-dandy tabs that separate my email into "Primary" (the one I actually want), "Social" (can I rename this 'trash'?), and "Promotions" (kill it with fire). I don't want that crap, other than as a filter that immediately trashes it and marks as spam.

* YouTube embeds used to not show annotations by default. Which was nice, because annotations suck. Now, the embed player seems to decide that you want them all the time, unless you want to sign in and go through a 19-step process to disable them.

* Caching and streaming used to work. I don't have a massively fast connection, and I live on the opposite side of the earth which gives me high latency. BUT, my connection is fast enough that I used to be able to pick out videos that I really want to watch in high quality, set to 1080p, pause, and let it cache for a few minutes. With that head start, I could probably play the video the whole way through. Now, if I pause, the player decides that I really want it to shittily try to transition down to a lower quality, which frequently garbles the whole video stream for a moderate duration and occasionally crashes it altogether. Thanks for that!


Plenty more issues, but I guess I'll stop there. Basically, all that Google/YouTube have accomplished is to encourage me to put on Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper (hide the entire f*&$ing comments section, nag-bars, etc. -- highly recommended), and Flash Video Downloader. That last one lets me simply download videos, at any quality available, so I can watch at my leisure.

Of course, YouTube is in a constant arms race with all those downloader plugins, so they periodically break for a day or so while they are updated to circumvent the YT blocks. But generally, they work well and let me download material to use when teaching classes here in rooms with no net connection.

fucking annotations!

A complete list available if you turn on annotations:

Adele
Cher
Judy Garland
Patti Lupone
Kristin Chenoweth
Edith Piaf
Bette Midler
Julie Andrews
Liza Minelli
Bernadette Peters
Gwen Stefani
Zooey Deschanel
Britney Spears
Shakira
Alanis Morisette
Norah jones
Christina Aguilera
Celine Dion
Barbra Streisand

I'm not sure which one you refer to was winking but I think it might be Patti Lupone. My fave was Edith Piaf.

Thank you there in the annotations as well.

This is awesome!

It helps to know that this is an interactive clip.
You can click on the various beer amounts, as well as the different camera angles.

Great use of annotations and links!

Promote the *quality!

I just want to point out again that there already is an option to turn on and off the annotations/links in every YouTube video (which contains annotations and/or links) embedded on VideoSift. I see no need to integrate such an option into VideoSift, if the option is already available in the embedded video itself: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6843/buttonzm.jpg

Ahhh... Ok. I referred to the star powers page, and the annotation for * promote for gold members states that it costs 1 power point. I thought that it required 2 points only for probationary members, as that is what the annotation for * promote refers to under the Probationary section. Now I get it. Two points for everybody, and members not yet gold may only self-promote. It took a few years, but now I understand. Thanks.

Wow! The mormons must be pissed!

Many things from Freemasonry were taken, changed, and used by Joseph Smith--who was a Mason--but the annotations are incorrect about all Masons receiving a "new name" during initiation (5:32).

Highly recommend clicking the annotation at the end.

>> ^Sagemind:
I see no options for captions - nor do I see anything on YouTube.
Let's see:
Play button-Volume-Duration-WatchLater-YoutubeLink-FullScreen.
On Youtube:
Play button-Volume-Duration-Annotations-Quality-WatchLater-SmallPlayer-LargePlayer-Fullscreen
Nope, no option for captions.
>> ^Reefie:
>> ^doogle:
downvote. Didn't understand a thing.
This is VideoSift, not VideoSiivilöidä.

Turn on captions you numptee! Their commentary is brilliant



My bad, as @pumkinandstorm has said it's annotations - I obviously don't know YouTube terminology! Sorry

>> ^Sagemind:
I see no options for captions - nor do I see anything on YouTube.
Let's see:
Play button-Volume-Duration-WatchLater-YoutubeLink-FullScreen.
On Youtube:
Play button-Volume-Duration-Annotations-Quality-WatchLater-SmallPlayer-LargePlayer-Fullscreen
Nope, no option for captions.
>> ^Reefie:
>> ^doogle:
downvote. Didn't understand a thing.
This is VideoSift, not VideoSiivilöidä.

Turn on captions you numptee! Their commentary is brilliant



Also, you must click on play before you will see what I'm talking about. Maybe this post wasn't such a good idea...a pain in the ass for everyone to watch. Sorry guys.

>> ^Sagemind:
I see no options for captions - nor do I see anything on YouTube.
Let's see:
Play button-Volume-Duration-WatchLater-YoutubeLink-FullScreen.
On Youtube:
Play button-Volume-Duration-Annotations-Quality-WatchLater-SmallPlayer-LargePlayer-Fullscreen
Nope, no option for captions.
>> ^Reefie:
>> ^doogle:
downvote. Didn't understand a thing.
This is VideoSift, not VideoSiivilöidä.

Turn on captions you numptee! Their commentary is brilliant



I'm so glad you mentioned this so I can put it in my video description. I assumed that they would automatically display for everyone. You need to click on where it says "show annotations" right at the bottom of the video (near the youtube logo).