One of the coolest features of Overlay.TV is the ability to use the bookmarklet (grab it from your MyPage) to create Overlays on videos in place and then save it to Overlay.TV and share it right from there to your blog.

What most bloggers don't know is that once you have done that you can actually fine tine or edit the Overlay in place on your blog. Try it using these four easy steps.

1. Go to YouTube and find one of your videos and select the Overlay.TV Bookmarklet
2. When the editor opens add a simple widget like Link and give it some information to work with (URL, title, image)
3. Save the Overlay and then share it to your blog by using the Share button on the lower right of the editor, picking your size and copying/pasting the code into your blog.
4. Preview or view your blog and hit Edit on the Overlay.TV player.

I find this particularly useful because I can quickly assemble the basic Overlay while writing the blog post and then fine tune the Overlay in place on the blog as I work. I did a quick example here on CarpVillage.com, and the entire process from shooting the interview through to editing the Overlay on my blog took about 35 minutes (I did not edit or optimize the video at all).

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You're right. Things have changed around here at Overlay.TV. This blog for example, looks different. And this post marks the first time we have had enough time to post since the end of April. Why, you ask, has it taken so long to post? It has taken this long because our small team has been working heads down to update Overlay.TV - the website, the player, the widgets and more are all updated now, and this is the last phase of our beta - 0.9 - before we launch our GA version soon!

We will definitely be blogging a lot more now. We will also be working pretty hard to get to the final production version ready.

For now take a run through the new site - let us know if you have any issues on our new GetSatisfaction site. And be sure to give us any suggestions, feedback, ideas or kudos in the comments here.

Thanks for sticking with us and enjoy the new site!

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