World of O News
Videos are getting more and more used within the orienteering sport as part of invitations, race reports, race analysis or just for fun. The number of orienteering videos at YouTube and other online Video Hosting sites is growing every day – a YouTube search for “Orienteering” at YouTube now gives nearly 300 hits. When I added a orienteering video from a local sprint race to YouTube about 11 months ago (now seen by more than 6000 according to YouTube), there were only a few orienteering videos at YouTube, in addition to a few videos hosted at other locations.
I am sure this development will continue in the coming years – as the orienteering community generally is technically oriented. With the latest feature in World of O I hope that World of O will help speeding up this development even more. From now on, the latest orienteering videos from YouTube will be shown at the World of O frontpage (tag your video “orienteering” to be included). This will hopefully motivate people further to add their orienteering videos.
Currently you find the latest videos when you scroll down the page to the day before yesterday on the main column. Click on a video to get up a small player. If this service is popular (please comment below), I will consider moving it further up in the page or into the right column. As of now, only YouTube videos are included, but other online video hosting services will be considered later on..
