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[Mattu]

New Videos Section Launched!

I'm very excited to announce the launch of our new, shiny Videos section:

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=ihv

It's accessible via the top right in the navigation menu above; via the normal searches; and soon very prominently on the new homepage.

Our videos on the homepage have gotten popular over the last year and this is the expanded version of that project.

Videos are great because they provide another way to present market information. A static chart with text commentary is very cool....but a chart with voice commentary and a mouse pointer helping explaining key data/indicators -- now that's groovy.

Expect to see lots of market-related video content added as we go. Not just stock charts, but market commentary and educational videos, too.

The best part about this new system? Anybody can contribute to it. All it takes is to locate a video on Youtube. You can be the original author OR include a video you found that would be useful to the iHub community.

There are currently three categories: Stock Chart, Educational, and Just For Fun.

You're welcome to add fun videos (nothing vulgar or would otherwise break our TOU, please), but they will not be listed on the Videos Homepage. Only market-related videos will be shown there.

So, Uncle Matt, why would we bother to contribute/add videos to the IHub Video system, when I can just link directly to the Youtube one?

Great question!

I view our Video system as Youtube, but for stocks. If you go to YT, you're likely have a hard time finding a video for exactly what you're looking for that is up to date and relevant. It's just not built for the real-time nature of the stock market and tickers. Our system, however, is built around tickers and sorted by time/date.

What we've done is leveraged the best features of Youtube and wrapped it up in a stock market-focused search and presentation layout.

One of my favorite features? Load up a video that has a stock ticker associated with it. It shows a chart, quote, and links to Level II, news, discussion board....cool, eh?

We also encourage people who have their own sites to contribute videos. We offer a special place in the display for you to add a link to your personal site. For those without a personal site, you're welcome to put your board, a message, whatever you'd like in there....

This is version 1.0. Soon, the videos will be shown on the IH homepage, added to your profile here in IHub, searchable via IH...and much, much more. We wanted to get it out now so everybody can start adding videos and playing around with it. Version 2.0 is planned very soon and we welcome any comments that any of you might have. Part of 2.0 is making video uploading possible right here on IH, just like you can do with images.

Alright, enough text...let's do some watching. Go take a look at the videos page, watch a video or two, let us know what you think, and add a video while you're there! It's easy! Just click Add A Video at the top of any video page....

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=ihv

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A job well done to Warren for coding this project: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/profile.asp?user=156132