A test for embedding a google video. Needs to work in the same way as YouTube videos in that WordPress provides its own markup instead of allowing embed or javascript tags.
Although here is an interesting learning - it only works if google URL is at google.com. Mine was video.google.co.uk and nothing displayed at all. I just changed the tld in the embed url and it worked. Still found its way to the right video too. Net
This video is a presentation video for Ant’s horse “Phoenix Reach” - the triple group 1 winning stallion that has now retired to stud. I built him a little website at www.phoenixreach.com if horses are your thing….
Here is a video taken at about 5am in Gothenburg city centre. Interesting how such a simple clip of, well, nothing really can be my most viewed video - beating The Kooks, The Arctic Monkeys and Get Cape! That must be either because it has a “how to..” title - or more likely because it is tagged with the words “Swedish” and “Girls”…
This done as a test for embedding YouTube videos straight into the page.
It seems that it is not possible to embed in the usual fashion because the system disables Javascript when running on WordPress.com like this is. (I simply can’t be arsed to setup hosting it myself.) However it is possible to embed YouTube videos using WordPress’s custom mark-up. See http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/ for more info.
While the idea of having a blog horrifies me, I thought I’d give it a go as a way of trying out all the new web2.0 technologies such as widgets etc that I’m supposed to know all about. As it turns out, the wordpress.com platform doesn’t let you run much script on their pages, so I’ve put everything onto www.guesto.com instead.
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