Today YouTube introduced collaborative annotations. Now you can give your friends the opportunity to write stuff that pops up throughout your video.

To enable collaborative annotations:

YouTube announced that it has made annotations much easier for the average user to engage in. Basically its as easy as signing in, clicking, and typing.

YouTube Video Annotations let users add text within their own videos. Kind of like VH1′s Pop-up Video. Users can use the feature to add background information, create stories, link to related content, etc.

How do you get online video viewers to interact with the clips they’re watching? Well, if you’re posting your video to YouTube, you can now use annotations.

With YouTube’s Video Annotations, you can: