Embed YouTube Video in Your Journal (Beta)

Hi folks -- Happy Bastille Day! Here's the wikipedia entry on the holiday, its history and significance.

Thus ends the educational portion of this entry. Here's the fun bit: Below is an embedded YouTube video that's tangentially related to the French holiday, as it features a new way to solve everyday problems inspired by French national team soccer player Zinedine Zidane, and his famous headbutt in this year's World Cup final:



But wait, you say -- forget about that silly video -- how do I embed the YouTube video player into my Journal?

Well, I'm not going to tell you.

That's because Journals Editor Jeff just did an entry about this very thing; check out Embedding YouTube Video In Your AOL Journal in his Pixel Pusher blog.

(Also see blogger John's embedded video -- he chose a video featuring cats.)

YouTube is one of many social video sharing sites out there -- AOL's own version is AOL UnCut Video, which we'll be talking about more in the coming days.

As regular folks get more comfortable creating and sharing their own content (not just words, but photos, audio, video and more), social media sharing sites are going to get more and more popular.

Of course, it's also fun to just watch.

Thanks -- Joe

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