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The death of YouTube annotations marks an end for early interactive web video

sudshr47 December 14, 2018

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In a small update to a YouTube support page last month, the online video giant announced that annotations would be deleted from all videos using the feature early next year.

An example of how crazy YouTube annotations could get if overused

An example of how crazy YouTube annotations could get if overused

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“We will stop showing existing annotations to viewers starting January 15, 2019,” YouTube explained, also confirming the removal of the feature. 

Annotations should be instantly recognizable to most YouTube viewers. They were a major method of self-promotion for channels, often presented as translucent boxes layered over videos asking users to subscribe or to click to another hyperlinked video.  Read more…

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These Lego-like bricks are actually robots that transform walls into kinetic surfaces

sudshr47 October 29, 2018

“Brixels” are software-controlled rotating bricks that transform walls into interactive displays. Created by design studio Breakfast, the Lego-like components are built to bring anything from walls to facades to life.  Read more…More about Desi…

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Netflix is planning a choose-your-own-adventure episode of ‘Black Mirror’

sudshr47 October 1, 2018

Netflix is doubling down on interactive TV, according to a new report from Bloomberg this morning. The streaming service is planning to develop a number of projects that will allow viewers to control the storyline’s progress in a TV show or movie, including one in an upcoming episode of the dystopian sci-fi anthology series, “Black […]

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