I've watched lots of YouTube clips, but generally I rely on the kindness of coworkers and friends to point me toward the good ones. Since I've never gone looking for anything myself, I'm finding the search, browse, and "related videos" aspects of YouTube most interesting.
I searched YouTube for "baking" because... well... I have a weakness I need not go into here. :)
My search was excessively simple and really not very helpful, because what I really wanted was bread baking, not cake baking, which was in abundance in my search results. Nevertheless, somewhere around tenth in the results list was a video called "baking bread from scratch - how to" (it's the one that should be embedded below, if all goes well). I like the fact that my rather poor search is assisted by category links to the right side of the listing in the search results, namely "more in: how to & style." This link re-runs my search in a category, and the results are a whole lot more effective than my amateurish search on the main page. After I've watched the video, I see a whole lot of suggestions for what to watch next listed on the right, as well - and the "related" videos just get more and more interesting as I follow the trail. No wonder people lose weeks of their lives to watching YouTube!
The assignment asks if I see any features or components of the site that might be useful for library websites. I would really like to see this kind of simple link to a subset of my search results in all OPACs. I'd also like to see more inter-linking of records - with clickable links by subject, author, year, any anything else that might apply. I'm sure most OPACs are going in this direction, but could they go faster if we left behind some of the library jargon? just a thought.
Here's the video:
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