Msnbc.com debuts innovative video player

Msnbc.com’s brand new inauguration video player features some amazing new features (of course, I’m a little biased, as I work here at msnbc.com.) Beyond streaming the live event itself, it features inauguration speeches stretching back for decades. Each has a transcript in a sidebar. Click a word or a tag, and you jump instantly to that location in the video. Highlight a sentence or two, and it spits out a little code, letting you embed that exact clip on your blog. Dynamic editing, right from the player:

I highlighted one paragraph from JFK’s inauguration and clicked.

Which then allowed me to change my in/out points (if you want) and then grab the code right from the player. I embedded it below:

More about the player in the Wall Street Journal right here (free link).