Uploading your Call of Duty Gameplay to YouTube

If you have about an hour or so to spare, check out this video about how the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops worked to integrate uploading gameplay footage directly to YouTube with the help of YouTube's Upload API's.  The video also goes further by discussing similar technology that will be used in the near future.

Preview of YouTube's New Embedded Playlist Player

Well, sort of.  As mentioned earlier, the creation of embedded Custom Players has been discontinued, in hopes of increasing popularity of the newer embedded playlists.

You can read how to preview the new embedded playlist player here.  The official launch for the new player is set for July 20th.

Want to know what Channel Branding Options will be in Cosmic Panda?

Seems the answer is, "Not much".

On the bright side, it seems that while channels may be losing some customization, the video watch pages may be gaining something new.

Oh, and no more channel autoplay.  For anyone.  That's mentioned somewhere.

YouTube Announces 'Cosmic Panda'

No, it's not YouTube's entry into the space program.

YouTube Discontinues it's Custom Player

YouTube has recently discontinued it's embedded Custom Video Player, with the announcement being a bit under the radar.

YouTube NextUp for Europe

It seems YouTube has a version of YouTube NextUp open for certain parts of Europe.  More information can be found here.  For anyone interested, this ends very soon (June 28th).

YouTube App Confirmed (for Xbox, anyway)

Microsoft announced at their E3 Media Briefing in Los Angeles today that YouTube will be available through XBox Live as part of an XBox Dashboard update this fall.  No other feature details for the app have been announced at this time.

(As of this post, the app has not been announced for any other console.)