While perusing my list of people I follow on Twitter today, I came across a tweet from Alex Lindsay of the Pixel Corps. about the new annotation feature on YouTube videos. Here’s what it says…
Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos! Use them to:
* Add background information about the video.
* Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene)
* Link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video
* All of the above!You control what the annotations say, where they appear on the video, and when they appear and disappear.
Indeed, this is a great feature that has numerous possibilities for storytelling, how-to videos, and general interactivity. Below is an example:
