Video: Now Playing on socialmedian. Also, new Popular Today widget

This morning we began enabling users to add, share, and watch videos on socialmedian. 

socialmedian users can now watch videos directly from socialmedian, enabling you to follow video clips that other users are sharing with you, and you with them.


Connect your video feed.  We've started down this exciting path by enabling socialmedian users to connect their YouTube favorites and uploads directly to socialmedian as part of our new "News-Streaming" features.  To connect your YouTube to socialmedian, click on the "Add something > Sites" option from the top right of any socialmedian page.



Then, select YouTube to configure your YouTube account with socialmedian.  In this case, I have decided to share all videos that I upload and/or favorite on YouTube with socialmedian.  You can also (optionally) choose to only share videos matching certain tags (keywords).


Then, to auto-share your videos from YouTube, upload any video to YouTube and it will be auto-shared on socialmedian, or just click the "favorite" button under any video on YouTube.


We'll be adding more ways to add, share, and watch videos on socialmedian real soon.

Also today, we added a new "Popular Today" widget on your socialmedian homepage.  This widget shows the most popular stories of the day, week, and month across all of socialmedian, as well as what's rising fast over the past few hours, and the hot discussions of the day.



More on the way!  Keep the feedback coming please.

-jason & the team