The scheme was inspired by some of the cool work that Morten Just has been doing by mashing up YouTube videos with different data sources — and I was happy Morten let me re-use some of his code.

The service works by parsing the search string from the url (using WikiWords or whatever you’d call them). It then tries to find a perfect match on Yahoo! Music which will be played in Yahoo’s video player. If that doesn’t work, the search is passed on to YouTube with the help of Morten’s player. It’s that simple.

The name of the service was suggested by @guan. I had originally wanted to call it Twack. Still unsure which is best?