March 30, 2007

Annotate Top Dance Videos from YouTube

The YouTube Video Awards were just announced and the most creative video is OK Go's "Here it Goes Again" - the very popular music video featuring band members dancing on treadmills.

The second most creative video on the list is also dance-inspired - sort of - "Where the Hell is Matt?" Definitely not one of my favorite videos.

Annotating Dance Videos

What can you do with the most popular dance videos?

Take a look at video annotation tool Mojiti. Here is a user-annotated version of "Here it Goes Again":

In the above video, a user has added text notes and highlighted sections of this music video to provide background and information about the band and music. You can access the "Here it Goes Again" video on Mojiti to watch all 25 of the annotated versions of this video. Mojiti refers to each annotation as a "spot."

If you don't see the "spots," click on the "+" button to the right of the video where it says "Spot Organizer."

Mojiti Adds New Features

According to post in Yesterday's Mashable, "Mojiti Lets You Edit YouTube Videos, on YouTube!", you'll soon be able to add audio and video annotations to videos as well.

With these multimedia additions, dancers, writers, educators, students and others will be able to add their thoughts, feedback and critiques to any video. I think this is great, but I can see some people having mixed feelings about these annotation tools.

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