Russian roulette is a potentially lethal game of chance in which participants place a single round in a revolver, spin the cylinder, place the muzzle against their head and pull the trigger. Chatroulette on the other hand is different… on second thought, they’re pretty much one in the same.
How Chatroulette Works:
Although there is no actual live ammunition and your life probably won’t be in danger, Chatroulette shares many similarities with Russian Roulette. Chatroulette is a game of chance, risk and randomness. It’s also a website that uses video chat to let the user communicate with complete strangers.
It’s a simple process: once you click accept and your webcam is detected you’re ready to go. You will be automatically matched with a chat partner. Once face to face with your partner you can then chat via instant message. If, for whatever reason, you don’t like the partner you have been given, you simply hit Next and you will receive a new chat partner.
From a user’s perspective, Chatroulette can be pretty interesting. Thrusted into people’s lives at the click of a button, Chatroulette provides one with hours of scary fun. I say scary because, to warn you, there are many chat partners out there that you just don’t want to see face to face. Take the below screen shots for example.



As a user we can see, for the shock value, Chatroulette is pretty entertaining. However, for a business I don’t see any uses at the moment.
In the future Chatroulette could adopt video ad overlays, or a quick video ad before you’re connected to a each user.
Even though Chatroulette gives users the ability to report a video, until they get the obscene videos under control, I don’t see it being taken seriously by businesses. So for now we give Chatroulette an…
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Oneupweb Reviews: YouTube Video Page Redesign
YouTube has been working on what it calls “one of the biggest redesigns in YouTube history.” About a month ago the video sharing site began offering a sneak peek at its new Video Page (not to be confused with a YouTube Channel Page). Since then YouTube has been revamping the interface based on user feedback.
Today let’s take a look at the new Video Page features to see if they get thumbs up or thumb down.
New Feature: Autoplay Videos
YouTube has created a new playlist interface within Video Pages. Here you will notice a new Autoplay On/Off switch. This allows videos to continue to play after your original video is finished.
New Feature: Add to Queue
Speaking of playlists, now when you search from the Video Page, you are able add videos to your queue directly from your search results.
New Feature: Consolidated Comments
In addition to text comments, video responses have become a large part of YouTube social interactions. With the new Video Page layout your video’s text comments and video responses are located in the same area.
One thing we like about this redesign is that YouTube is implementing it slowly over time. This is a strategy that Facebook could learn a lot from.
We really enjoy the new features of the redesigned Video Page, which is currently opt-in only with the choice to go back to the old version if you don’t like the new layout. YouTube says it has “a bit more work to do” before rolling out the redesign on a larger scale.
Overall we’re giving the YouTube Video Page redesign an…
Official Oneupweb Review: Oneup-Thumbs-Up
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