Another Disa-google-pointment.

So, I signed up for a YouTube account today. I was hoping that I could just use Google Video (especially since Google bought YouTube) and be satisfied.

However, Google video makes it a little harder to do the one thing that I really want with video - post it here. With Google, I have to upload the video, then post it to Blogger (also owned by Google) from the video.google.com website. On the other (better) side, when you see a video on YouTube's site, there are two links right there, right next to the video. One is the actual URL for the video, and the other is a short piece of HTML code that you can use to imbed it into any site (like this one). This little piece of HTML code is infinitely more useful than what Google video provides.

For example, when I embeded the two videos in the Vail post, I had to actually pretend to post those two videos individually from the Google site. Then I had to cut and paste the HTML from those two fake posts into the actual post that I had written. Then I had to go back and delete the two fake videos. Pain In The Ass.

Once I logged into YouTube, it took me about two minutes to find this clip of Leo Laporte reporting on the MS Zune (which I have disliked from the beginning and quickly pinned as destined to commercial failure):


I just cut and paste the whole object tag right from the YouTube site and put in right into the HTML of this post. How easy. By the way, Leo is one of my favorite tech guys because he is extremely knowledgeable and down to earth about what technology needs to do for people to be successful.