Up for Review

New Youtube interface

Posted on December 17th, 2007 by reviewer.
Categories: Social Media.

I know it’s not our usual fare but youtube has a new interface that’s pretty sweet. I’ve only been able to get it to show up on Safari using a mac while in full screen mode. I had a friend try to look at it on his Vista machine using firefox and it didn’t come up for him. I haven’t had time to look to see if there is anything in the code. It might only be on certain sections of youtube. Who knows.

For the record, This is the video I was watching when I first saw it.

Here is a screen grab

So basically the menu comes up with related videos in these floating bubbles and whenever you hover over one of them it expands to that video’s related content. So, after hovering over the image in the bottom left this is the screen shot I got

Its pretty cool how quickly you can span several different videos to find related ones that look interesting. I kind of wish it would give a bit more time hovering before expanding because you could very easily loose the video you were looking at because related content is popping up all over the place.

They are color coded based on what level they are are pushing from. All in all pretty cool, a little cpu intensive but pretty cool

Post a comment if you’re able to duplicate this menu and put your OS and browser, oh and feel free to post your opinion.

Conditions on the observation box

OS: OS X Leopard
Browser: Safari 3 (nightly build webkit)
Window: Youtube video was maximized to full screen mode.