YouTube went offline last night for updating. Added features include the capability to customize the colors and content on your personal profile page, and a new Google Labs-like feature, TestTube, where you can experiment with new YouTube features. For example, TestTube has the new Audio Swap feature, which lets you replace your video’s audio with a music track from one of several artists that YouTube has made arrangements with. The major snag with this feature is that it completely overwrites your video’s audio track. For that, you’d need a more full-featured video editor, which Google/YouTube doesn’t yet offer. Also new: Streams. These are fancy video channels with chat rooms attached. Users can add videos to a stream (that the stream moderator can later remove) and chat about what they’re watching. There are some other snags in the system: I couldn’t switch videos in a stream easily. Lycos and Stickam also have video-based chat rooms, but YouTube’s Streams should ultimately be better, because it’s so easy to add a video from the enormous YouTube library to a stream, and then begin chatting about it.(VIA Joost Team) Source: www.webware.com

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