Straight Up Site of Interest - A/V Usability

Posted by keirsun on October 06, 2006 at 04:21 PM

It's time once again to rotate the tires and go for a spin in the Straight Up Site of Interest. This monthly post focuses on forward-thinking internet technologies and the websites that drive them. After taking in the view, you'll have another answer to this very important question: "How can I market my website?"

This month's topic: Audio & Video File Usability

Straight Up Site of Interest: veotag

In Their Own Words: "veotag is an exciting new service that lets you display clickable text, called 'veotags,' within an audio or video file."

First Impression:

If you host audio or video files on your website that clients can view/listen to for more information about your products and services, veotag may be of interest to you.

In a nutshell, the veotag player allows you to create a readable, and clickable, table of contents for A/V files. For example, if your site offers a video tour of your production warehouse, veotag can help you create links to each location on the tour, so viewers have the option to click ahead to their specific area of interest.

veotag also touts that these links are actual text, which can be indexed by a search engine web crawler. This would give your site additional content for both search engines and users.

However, I was unable to find information on the veotag site explaining whether that text resides on the host's domain or veotag's domain. From a search engine perspective, indexable content is only beneficial to the web site it's hosted on.

Regardless, veotag is definitely pushing forward with an audio/video file player that puts the user in the driver's seat.