diff --git a/addon/oembed/oembed.js b/addon/oembed/oembed.js
index 54547a86ec..f8e957413c 100644
--- a/addon/oembed/oembed.js
+++ b/addon/oembed/oembed.js
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 function oembed(){
-  $("#oembed").toggleClass('hide');
-}
-
-function oembed_do(){
-  embed = "[embed]"+$('#oembed_url').attr('value')+"[/embed]";
-  
-  tinyMCE.execCommand('mceInsertRawHTML',false,embed);
-  oembed();
+	var reply = prompt("$oembed_message:");
+	if(reply && reply.length) { 
+		  tinyMCE.execCommand('mceInsertRawHTML',false, "[embed]"+reply+"[/embed]" );
+	}
 }
diff --git a/addon/oembed/oembed.php b/addon/oembed/oembed.php
index d9b205a3a5..f1fb279867 100644
--- a/addon/oembed/oembed.php
+++ b/addon/oembed/oembed.php
@@ -6,56 +6,89 @@
  * http://www.oembed.com/
  * 
  */
- 
+
+require_once('include/oembed.php');
+
 function oembed_install() {
-  register_hook('jot_tool', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_jot_tool');
-  register_hook('page_header', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_page_header');
+	register_hook('jot_tool', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_jot_tool');
+	register_hook('page_header', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_page_header');
+	register_hook('plugin_settings', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_settings'); 
+	register_hook('plugin_settings_post', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_settings_post');
 }
 
 function oembed_uninstall() {
-  unregister_hook('jot_tool', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_jot_tool');
-  unregister_hook('page_header', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_page_header');
+	unregister_hook('jot_tool', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_jot_tool');
+	unregister_hook('page_header', 'addon/oembed/oembed.php', 'oembed_hook_page_header');
 }
 
+function oembed_settings_post(){
+    if(! local_user())
+		return;
+	if (isset($_POST['oembed-submit'])){
+		set_pconfig(local_user(), 'oembed', 'use_for_youtube', (isset($_POST['oembed_use_for_youtube'])?1:0));
+		notice( t('OEmbed settings updated') . EOL);
+	}
+}
+
+function oembed_settings(&$a,&$o) {
+    if(! local_user())
+		return;
+	$uofy = get_pconfig(local_user(), 'oembed', 'use_for_youtube' );
+	
+	$o .='<h3 class="settings-heading">OEmbed</h3>';
+	$o.='
+	<div id="settings-username-wrapper">
+		<label for="oembed_use_for_youtube">'
+			.t('Use OEmbed for YouTube videos: ') 
+		.'</label><input type="checkbox" id="oembed_use_for_youtube" name="oembed_use_for_youtube"'
+		. ($uofy==1?'checked="true"':'')
+		.'>
+	</div>
+	<div id="settings-username-end"></div>
+	<div class="settings-submit-wrapper">
+		<input type="submit" value="'.t('Submit').'" class="settings-submit" name="oembed-submit">
+	</div>';
+}
+
+
 function oembed_hook_page_header($a, &$b){
-
-	if(($a->module !== 'network') && ($a->module !== 'profile'))
-		return; 
-
-  $b .= '<script src="addon/oembed/oembed.js"></script>
-  <style>#oembed.hide { display: none } 
-  #oembed {
-     display:block; position: absolute; width: 300px; height:200px;
-     background-color:#fff; color: #000;
-     border:2px solid #8888FF; padding: 1em;
-     top: 200px; left: 400px; z-index:2000;  
-   }
-  #oembed_url { width: 100%; margin-bottom:3px;}
-   </style>';
-  
-  $b .= '
-  <div id="oembed" class="hide"><input id="oembed_url">&nbsp;
-    <input type="button" value="Embed" onclick="oembed_do()" style="float:left;">
-    <a onclick="oembed(); return false;" style="float:right;"><img onmouseout="imgdull(this);" onmouseover="imgbright(this);" class="wall-item-delete-icon" src="images/b_drophide.gif" style="width: 16px; height: 16px;"></a>
-    <div style="clear:both">Paste a link from 5min.com, Amazon Product Image, blip.tv, Clikthrough, CollegeHumor Video, 
-      Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Dailymotion, dotSUB.com, Flickr Photos, Funny or Die Video, 
-      Google Video, Hulu, Kinomap, LiveJournal UserPic, Metacafe, National Film Board of Canada, 
-      Phodroid Photos, Photobucket, Qik Video, Revision3, Scribd, SlideShare, TwitPic, Twitter Status, 
-      Viddler Video, Vimeo, Wikipedia, Wordpress.com, XKCD Comic, YFrog, YouTube</div> 
-  </div>
-  ';
+	$a->page['htmlhead'] .= sprintf('<script src="%s/oembed/oembed.js"></script>', $a->get_baseurl());
 }
 
 
 function oembed_hook_jot_tool($a, &$b) {
-  $b .= '
-    <div class="tool-wrapper" style="display: $visitor;" >
-      <img class="tool-link" src="addon/oembed/oembed.png" alt="Embed" title="Embed" onclick="oembed();" />
-    </div> 
-  ';
+	$b .= '
+	<div class="tool-wrapper" style="display: $visitor;" >
+	  <img class="tool-link" src="addon/oembed/oembed.png" alt="Embed" title="Embed" onclick="oembed();" />
+	</div> 
+	';
 }
 
 
+function oembed_module() {
+	return;
+}
 
+function oembed_init(&$a) {
+	if ($a->argv[1]=='oembed.js'){
+		$tpl = file_get_contents('addon/oembed/oembed.js');
+		echo replace_macros($tpl, array(
+			'$oembed_message' =>  t('URL to embed:'),
+		));
+	}
+	
+	if ($a->argv[1]=='b2h'){
+		$url = array( "", trim(hex2bin($_GET['url'])));
+		echo oembed_replacecb($url);
+	}
+	
+	if ($a->argv[1]=='h2b'){
+		$text = trim(hex2bin($_GET['text']));
+		echo oembed_html2bbcode($text);
+	}
+	
+	killme();
+	
+}
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index c2d9326748..3caf2a6b17 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -92,17 +92,21 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false) {
 	// [img=widthxheight]image source[/img]
 	$Text = preg_replace("/\[img\=([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)\](.+?)\[\/img\]/", '<img src="$3" style="height:{$2}px; width:{$1}px;" >', $Text);
 
-	// Youtube extensions
+	if (get_pconfig(local_user(), 'oembed', 'use_for_youtube' )==1){
+		// use oembed for youtube links
+		$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\]/",'[embed]',$Text); 
+		$Text = preg_replace("/\[\/youtube\]/",'[/embed]',$Text); 
+	} else {
+		// Youtube extensions
         $Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\]https?:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v\=(.+?)\[\/youtube\]/",'[youtube]$1[/youtube]',$Text); 
         $Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\]https?:\/\/youtu.be\/(.+?)\[\/youtube\]/",'[youtube]$1[/youtube]',$Text); 
-
-	$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\](.+?)\[\/youtube\]/", '<br /><iframe style="width:425px;height:349px;padding:10px 0 10px 0;float:left;" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/$1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>', $Text);
-
-//	$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\](.+?)\[\/youtube\]/", '<br /><object style="width:425px;height:350px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1" ><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1"></param><!--[if IE]><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px;height:350px;" /><![endif]--></object>', $Text);
+		$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\](.+?)\[\/youtube\]/", '<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/$1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>', $Text);
+	}
+//	$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\](.+?)\[\/youtube\]/", '<object width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1" ><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1"></param><!--[if IE]><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" /><![endif]--></object>', $Text);
 
 	// oembed tag
 	$Text = oembed_bbcode2html($Text);
-
+	
 	call_hooks('bbcode',$Text);
 
 	return $Text;
diff --git a/include/oembed.php b/include/oembed.php
index 4d2b7185e9..06a37d8e48 100644
--- a/include/oembed.php
+++ b/include/oembed.php
@@ -1,54 +1,92 @@
 <?php
 function oembed_replacecb($matches){
-  $embedurl=$matches[1];
-  
-  $r = q("SELECT v FROM `cache` WHERE k='%s'",
-  		dbesc($embedurl));
-  if(count($r)){
-  	$txt = $r[0]['v'];
-  } else {
-	  $ourl = "http://oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=".urlencode($embedurl);  
-	  $txt = fetch_url($ourl);
-	  //save in cache
-	  q("INSERT INTO `cache` VALUES ('%s','%s','%s')",
-	  	dbesc($embedurl),
-		dbesc($txt),
-		dbesc(datetime_convert()));
-  }
-  $j = json_decode($txt);
-  $ret="<span class='oembed'>";
-  switch ($j->type) {
-    case "video": {
-       if (isset($j->thumbnail_url)) {
-         $tw = (isset($j->thumbnail_width)) ? $j->thumbnail_width:200;
-         $th = (isset($j->thumbnail_height)) ? $j->thumbnail_height:180;
-         $ret = "<a href='".$embedurl."' onclick='this.innerHTML=unescape(\"".urlencode($j->html)."\").replace(/\+/g,\" \"); return false;' >";
-         $ret.= "<img width='$tw' height='$th' src='".$j->thumbnail_url."'>";
-         $ret.= "</a>";
-       } else {
-         $ret=$j->html;
-       }
-       $ret.="<br>";
-    }; break;
-    case "photo": {
-      $ret = "<img width='".$j->width."' height='".$j->height."' src='".$j->url."'>";
-      $ret.="<br>";
-    }; break;  
-    case "link": {
-      //$ret = "<a href='".$embedurl."'>".$j->title."</a>";
-    }; break;  
-    case "rich": {
-      // not so safe.. 
-      $ret = "<blockquote>".$j->html."</blockquote>";
-    }; break;
-  }
-  
-  $embedlink = (isset($j->title))?$j->title:$embedurl;
-  $ret .= "<a href='$embedurl' rel='oembed'>$embedlink</a>";
-  if (isset($j->author_name)) $ret.=" by ".$j->author_name;
-  if (isset($j->provider_name)) $ret.=" on ".$j->provider_name;
-  $ret.="</span>";
-  return $ret;
+	$embedurl=$matches[1];
+	$j = oembed_fetch_url($embedurl);
+	return oembed_format_object($j);
+}
+
+
+function oembed_fetch_url($embedurl){
+	$r = q("SELECT v FROM `cache` WHERE k='%s'",
+				dbesc($embedurl));
+				
+	if(count($r)){
+		$txt = $r[0]['v'];
+	} else {
+		$txt = "";
+		
+		// try oembed autodiscovery
+		$html_text = fetch_url($embedurl);
+		$dom = @DOMDocument::loadHTML($html_text);
+		if ($dom){
+			$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
+			$attr = "oembed";
+		
+			$xattr = oe_build_xpath("class","oembed");
+			$entries = $xpath->query("//link[@type='application/json+oembed']");
+			foreach($entries as $e){
+				$href = $e->getAttributeNode("href")->nodeValue;
+				$txt = fetch_url($href);
+			}
+		}
+		
+		if ($txt==false || $txt==""){
+			// try oohembed service
+			$ourl = "http://oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=".urlencode($embedurl);  
+			$txt = fetch_url($ourl);
+		}
+		
+		$txt=trim($txt);
+		if ($txt[0]!="{") $txt='{"type":"error"}';
+	
+		//save in cache
+		/*q("INSERT INTO `cache` VALUES ('%s','%s','%s')",
+			dbesc($embedurl),
+			dbesc($txt),
+			dbesc(datetime_convert()));*/
+	}
+	
+	$j = json_decode($txt);
+	$j->embedurl = $embedurl;
+	return $j;
+}
+	
+function oembed_format_object($j){
+	$embedurl = $j->embedurl;
+	$ret="<span class='oembed ".$j->type."'>";
+	switch ($j->type) {
+		case "video": {
+			if (isset($j->thumbnail_url)) {
+				/*$tw = (isset($j->thumbnail_width)) ? $j->thumbnail_width:200;
+				$th = (isset($j->thumbnail_height)) ? $j->thumbnail_height:180;*/
+				$tw=150; $th=120; 
+				$ret.= "<a href='".$embedurl."' onclick='this.innerHTML=unescape(\"".urlencode($j->html)."\").replace(/\+/g,\" \"); return false;' style='float:left; margin: 1em; '>";
+				$ret.= "<img width='$tw' height='$th' src='".$j->thumbnail_url."'>";
+				$ret.= "</a>";
+			} else {
+				$ret=$j->html;
+			}
+			$ret.="<br>";
+		}; break;
+		case "photo": {
+			$ret.= "<img width='".$j->width."' height='".$j->height."' src='".$j->url."'>";
+			$ret.="<br>";
+		}; break;  
+		case "link": {
+			//$ret = "<a href='".$embedurl."'>".$j->title."</a>";
+		}; break;  
+		case "rich": {
+			// not so safe.. 
+			$ret.= "<blockquote>".$j->html."</blockquote>";
+		}; break;
+	}
+
+	$embedlink = (isset($j->title))?$j->title:$embedurl;
+	$ret .= "<a href='$embedurl' rel='oembed'>$embedlink</a>";
+	if (isset($j->author_name)) $ret.=" by ".$j->author_name;
+	if (isset($j->provider_name)) $ret.=" on ".$j->provider_name;
+	$ret.="<br style='clear:left'></span>";
+	return $ret;
 }
 
 function oembed_bbcode2html($text){
@@ -98,7 +136,7 @@ function oembed_html2bbcode($text) {
 		$xattr = oe_build_xpath("rel","oembed");
 		foreach($entries as $e) {
 			$href = $xpath->evaluate("a[$xattr]/@href", $e)->item(0)->nodeValue;
-			if(!is_null($href)) $e->parentNode->replaceChild(new DOMText("[embed]".$href."[embed]"), $e);
+			if(!is_null($href)) $e->parentNode->replaceChild(new DOMText("[embed]".$href."[/embed]"), $e);
 		}
 		return oe_get_inner_html( $dom->getElementsByTagName("body")->item(0) );
 	} else {
diff --git a/mod/parse_url.php b/mod/parse_url.php
index 30371e9f6a..15a6aced0e 100644
--- a/mod/parse_url.php
+++ b/mod/parse_url.php
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 require_once('library/HTML5/Parser.php');
 
-
 function parse_url_content(&$a) {
 
 	logger('parse_url: ' . $_GET['url']);
@@ -25,9 +24,9 @@ function parse_url_content(&$a) {
 		killme();
 	}
 
-	if($url) 
+	if($url) {
 		$s = fetch_url($url);
-	else {
+	} else {
 		echo '';
 		killme();
 	}
@@ -97,4 +96,4 @@ function parse_url_content(&$a) {
 
 	echo sprintf($template,$url,$title,$text);
 	killme();
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/bbcode/editor_plugin_src.js b/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/bbcode/editor_plugin_src.js
index aad83280d4..db676cd908 100644
--- a/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/bbcode/editor_plugin_src.js
+++ b/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/bbcode/editor_plugin_src.js
@@ -47,6 +47,27 @@
 			function rep(re, str) {
 				s = s.replace(re, str);
 			};
+
+
+
+
+			/* oembed */
+			function _h2b_cb(match) {
+				text = bin2hex(match);
+				function s_h2b(data) {
+						match = data;
+				}
+				$.ajax({
+					url: 'oembed/h2b?text=' + text,
+					async: false,
+					success: s_h2b,
+					dataType: 'html'
+				});
+				return match;
+			}
+			s = s.replace(/<span class=\"oembed(.*?)<\/span>/gi, _h2b_cb);
+			/* /oembed */
+
 
 			// example: <strong> to [b]
 			rep(/<a.*?href=\"(.*?)\".*?>(.*?)<\/a>/gi,"[url=$1]$2[/url]");
@@ -55,8 +76,8 @@
 			rep(/<font>(.*?)<\/font>/gi,"$1");
 			rep(/<img.*?width=\"(.*?)\".*?height=\"(.*?)\".*?src=\"(.*?)\".*?\/>/gi,"[img=$1x$2]$3[/img]");
 			rep(/<img.*?height=\"(.*?)\".*?width=\"(.*?)\".*?src=\"(.*?)\".*?\/>/gi,"[img=$2x$1]$3[/img]");
-      rep(/<img.*?src=\"(.*?)\".*?height=\"(.*?)\".*?width=\"(.*?)\".*?\/>/gi,"[img=$3x$2]$1[/img]");
-      rep(/<img.*?src=\"(.*?)\".*?width=\"(.*?)\".*?height=\"(.*?)\".*?\/>/gi,"[img=$2x$3]$1[/img]");
+			rep(/<img.*?src=\"(.*?)\".*?height=\"(.*?)\".*?width=\"(.*?)\".*?\/>/gi,"[img=$3x$2]$1[/img]");
+			rep(/<img.*?src=\"(.*?)\".*?width=\"(.*?)\".*?height=\"(.*?)\".*?\/>/gi,"[img=$2x$3]$1[/img]");
 			rep(/<img.*?src=\"(.*?)\".*?\/>/gi,"[img]$1[/img]");
 			rep(/<code>(.*?)<\/code>/gi,"[code]$1[/code]");
 			rep(/<\/(strong|b)>/gi,"[/b]");
@@ -106,6 +127,24 @@
 			rep(/\[size=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/size\]/gi,"<span style=\"font-size: $1;\">$2</span>");
 			rep(/\[code\](.*?)\[\/code\]/gi,"<code>$1</code>");
 			rep(/\[quote.*?\](.*?)\[\/quote\]/gi,"<blockquote>$1</blockquote>");
+
+			/* oembed */
+			function _b2h_cb(match, url) {
+				url = bin2hex(url);
+				function s_b2h(data) {
+						match = data;
+				}
+				$.ajax({
+					url: 'oembed/b2h?url=' + url,
+					async: false,
+					success: s_b2h,
+					dataType: 'html'
+				});
+				return match;
+			}
+			s = s.replace(/\[embed\](.*?)\[\/embed\]/gi, _b2h_cb);
+			
+			/* /oembed */
 
 			return s; 
 		}
diff --git a/view/it/strings.php b/view/it/strings.php
index de67aad4d7..aa6184e21c 100644
--- a/view/it/strings.php
+++ b/view/it/strings.php
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ $a->strings["Administrator"] = "Amministratore";
 $a->strings["Friend/Connection Request"] = "Richieste di Amicizia/Connessione";
 $a->strings["Examples: jojo@demo.friendika.com, http://demo.friendika.com/profile/jojo, testuser@identi.ca"] = "Esempi: jojo@demo.friendika.com, http://demo.friendika.com/profile/jojo, testuser@identi.ca";
 $a->strings["Please answer the following:"] = "Rispondi al seguente:";
-$a->strings["Does \$name know you?"] = "$name ti conosce?";
+$a->strings["Does \$name know you?"] = "\$name ti conosce?";
 $a->strings["Yes"] = "Si";
 $a->strings["No"] = "No";
 $a->strings["Add a personal note:"] = "Aggiungi una nota personale:";