This is simply an experiment. Instead of links to movies within YouTube taking you to YouTube's site, they now keep you at Plime and display the movie here.

I'm not really liking this at the moment, since it breaks with the format for the rest of the links at Plime. I'd love your input though.

*Update - Google Video now works as well.

Example:

Great idea! Very cool.

Personally, I don't see it as breaking the format for the rest of the links, because video is an entirely different format than text, so different rules can apply.

I like it. It's slick.

Question: Does it work simply by linking to the Youtube page containing the video (by scraping the "embed" tag from the page), or is there an extra step involved for the user?

I suppose I could test it and find out, but I don't have any videos to link to right now.

It works just by linking to the video. I think its pretty cool. I posted a video and saw it. Pretty neat.

I like it. Is this YouTube specific, or will it work for other vid sites (Google)?

Just youtube for now, but I can add Google as well.

but is there a way of tracking video views?

It appears to track the same way, by counting the clicks on the headline (not the actual playing of the video) or so it appears from observing some of the posts

Yes, it works the same as before. Anyone visiting the comments page to see the video will get marked as a view of the video.

Incidentally, Google Video now works here as well.

It sure does:

Thanks.