YouTube revamps embedded player

Don Day June 10th, 2007

YouTube may not have invented the “embed this” concept, but it certainly helped popularize it. Now Google’s video play has updated its embedded player interface. You can jump ahead in a video timeline (even if the part you want to skip to hasn’t downloaded yet). The most notable changes come when you finish a video. The last frame of video shrinks down, and you are presented with a series of thumbnails of related videos. Here’s a (very random) 3 second video so you can see it in action: