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8 items tagged “youtube”

There is a reason why Flickr eventually killed Yahoo! Photos and why it was decided that Google Video be relegated to being a search brand while YouTube would be the social sharing brand. The brand baggage and the accompanying culture made them road kill.

Dare Obasanjo 0 16th June 2008, 2:54 pm

Musical hackery. Indescribably clever musical video game creation, where images from classic games spell out their own theme tunes. The smartest thing I’ve seen on YouTube, well, ever. 1 22nd November 2007, 5:03 pm

Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video. I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the Windows 386 rap. 1 13th September 2007, 10:10 am

H.264 support coming to the Flash player. It looks like this is a response to the higher video quality offered by Silverlight. I wonder if YouTube knew about this when they started transcoding their videos to H.264 for the Apple TV and iPhone. 1 21st August 2007, 8:28 am

YouTube Scalability Talk. Kyle Cordes’ notes on a Google Tech Talk on scaling YouTube by Cuong Do. 0 14th July 2007, 10:26 pm

Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion. This introduced me to a whole world of YouTube Star Wars lego stop motion videos. 0 3rd July 2007, 11:03 pm

Top XSS exploits by PageRank. Yahoo!, MSN, Google, YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook all feature. 0 29th May 2007, 10:07 pm

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. Absolutely worth watching—don’t be put off by the title. 1 5th February 2007, 11:05 pm

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