THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV

Msnbc.com debuts innovative video player

Posted by Cory Bergman on January 16, 2009

Msnbc.com’s brand new inauguration video player features some amazing new features (of course, I’m a little biased, as I work here at msnbc.com.) Beyond streaming the live event itself, it features inauguration speeches stretching back for decades. Each has a transcript in a sidebar. Click a word or a tag, and you jump instantly to that location in the video. Highlight a sentence or two, and it spits out a little code, letting you embed that exact clip on your blog. Dynamic editing, right from the player:

I highlighted one paragraph from JFK’s inauguration and clicked.

Which then allowed me to change my in/out points (if you want) and then grab the code right from the player. I embedded it below:


More about the player in the Wall Street Journal right here (free link).