To make the activity streams more useful, YouTube decided to expand the actions that are shared and to show them in a persistent toolbar at the bottom of the page. The feature, dubbed RealTime YouTube, requires an invitation from a friend who already has it.
The RealTime toolbar shows a list of friends that are currently online, their recent activities and notifies when one of your friends posts comments or rates videos. For example, you can now see all the videos currently watched by your friends.
The toolbar lacks some features that would make it really useful: chatting with your friends and watching videos at the same time. You can disable the real-time sharing and it's also possible to hide the toolbar from YouTube's settings.
If you already have the RealTime toolbar, you can send invitations to 25 of your friends. A simple way to both invite YouTube users to become your friends and to send an invitation for the toolbar is to use the YouTube Peeps link, which is only active for 15 minutes. To get an invitation, monitor the search results for youtube.com/peep on Twitter and click on a recent invite link.
Real-time interfaces become increasingly popular as people no longer want to wait for updates: Twitter's real-time search, FriendFeed's new interface and YouTube RealTime show what's happening right now.
"An overwhelming sense of restlessness and impatience engulfed the U.S. this week when citizens determined that everything — the morning commute, phone conversations, getting a table at Chili's, making coffee, commercial breaks, everything — was taking entirely too long," reported The Onion last month. "According to the latest time estimates, if everything continues to move along at this intolerable pace, Americans will be left with no other choice but to scream."
ah, the impatience of modern society in a james gleich age
ReplyDeleteAre you really using The Onion as a source of serious opinion? o_0
ReplyDeleteAll of youtube is very slow for me right now, as in, not connecting slow...
ReplyDeleteYou tube is really very very slow. If you have to go look a video of 5 min to for buffering it need aprox 15 min. I think these guys should do something for this as well.
ReplyDeletei wish i could use youtube real time. does anybody know when youtube real time will have the full version of this. i want to use this and everybody does too.
ReplyDeleteI personally do not like this YouTube RealTime Sharing ToolBar. I have tried for hours removing this thing and it keeps coming back after I log back into my account. I followed some of the help files on hiding the toolbar and it does go away, until I log back into YouTube and the toolbar returns. I would like to perminitely remove this feature 100% Has anyone else had this problem. Thank You.
ReplyDeleteI want many more features added to this, right now its useless..
ReplyDeletehow do I disable it? cause i dont like to use this one, but I got invited
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't work with google chrome i think which doesn't make sense because google bought youtube
ReplyDeleteInvite me! I want to try it out. It sounds interesting:) http://youtube.com/jrthegreat1
ReplyDeleteI think it's a load of crap. It doesn't do anything for me but take up space on my display.
ReplyDeleteif anyone want to invite me, username dileask
ReplyDeletei have 25 invites. search me on youtube - huiyinhsu
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