For good combination of news *and* entertainment video presentation take a look at The Daily Show site: http://www.thedailyshow.com/ By the way, I like their calendar navigation/filter: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml
Oleh On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:15:46, Eugene Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been hard finding research on this with just snippets of > information here and there. So far I've attempted to sniff out best > practices from other video sites, conducted one 30-minute > around-the-office user test, and relied on my and my team's > expertise. I hope to convince management to fit some usability in > before our next revision. > > > It's important to note that these were models for > > video embedded in the context of a page w/other content. > > > Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of if you specifically > navigated to a video site, but I agree with you concerning embedded > media and when it's appropriate. ESPN auto-plays the video on their > home page and I find it pretty annoying (top-right-hand corner). > It's like embedded audio back in the day... > > But concerning auto-play vs. click-to-play, the type of video content > presented has much to do with determining this. Are you mainly > providing news or entertainment? While not mutually exclusive, I'd > imagine CNN videos don't have as much viral value as YouTube videos > do. This includes factors such as timeliness of content (evening > news vs. dancing hamsters) and replay-ability (watching the same > video again), amongst others. > > Hope to see more discussion on this. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25981 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is the Design of Time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
