YouTube Adds Geotagging, Overhauls Uploader

YouTube has made changes to its Upload Video page, adding a number of expandable boxes allowing you to specify certain options for your video before you upload it. Here is the page, with all the boxes expanded:

Here’re what the boxes do:

Let you choose whether a video will be public or private.
Geotag videos, saying where you recorded it on a Google Map, as well as the date it was recorded.
Sharing options: Whether comments are allowed and whether they are automatic; whether video responses are allowed, and whether they are approved automatically (stupidly, the default is automatic, and should be changed); whether users can rate the video; whether other websites can embed your video.

The other thing changed is that the simpler uploader is gone. You have to use the AJAX-y uploader, which isn’t perfect. The old uploader was just a link away before, and I don’t understand why […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg