I’m sure that you’re familiar with YouTube by now. But did you know there are now two alternative interfaces to YouTube available designed for different on-screen experiences? The first is YouTube XL which is “optimized for watching YouTube videos on any large screen” such as a television. (It will still work on computer monitors just fine.) The other, announced just last week is called Feather and is “intended to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser.” In Feather’s case you need to opt-in via the previously-linked page. (You can always opt-out later via the same page.)

Here’s a neat little YouTube trick I stumbled over.

So you find a YouTube video that’s been embedded in someone’s Web page and you want to embed it in yours. Chances are you click on the video which will load it up the original YouTube.com page and then you find and copy the embed code. Well, did you know that if you right-click on that embedded video you’ll get a “Copy embed html” option?