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2008

YouTube Playlist: DjangoCon 2008 Sessions. YouTube’s tag and search indexes appear to lag behind the main site by quite a while; this appears to be the definitive index page for videos of talks at DjangoCon.

# 16th September 2008, 4:50 am / djangocon08, django, python, youtube

YouTube: djangocon tag. Google have started posting videos of presentations at DjangoCon on YouTube.

# 16th September 2008, 2:43 am / google, youtube, django, python, djangocon

“THIS IS NOT MLM!!!”—An Appreciation. Merlin Mann explains his fascination with the “cash gifting” pyramid scams that keep cropping up on YouTube.

# 3rd August 2008, 3:14 pm / youtube, mlm, pyramidschemes, cashgifting, merlinmann

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

# 16th June 2008, 2:54 pm / flickr, yahoo, google, youtube, branding, dare-obasanjo

2007

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.

# 22nd November 2007, 5:03 pm / youtube, games, music, genius, hack

Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video. I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the Windows 386 rap.

# 13th September 2007, 10:10 am / microsoft, funny, msdos, windows, youtube

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.

# 21st August 2007, 8:28 am / flash, h264, silverlight, iphone, youtube, video, adobe, microsoft, appletv

YouTube Scalability Talk. Kyle Cordes’ notes on a Google Tech Talk on scaling YouTube by Cuong Do.

# 14th July 2007, 10:26 pm / youtube, scaling, kylecordes, google, googletechtalk, cuongdo

Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion. This introduced me to a whole world of YouTube Star Wars lego stop motion videos.

# 3rd July 2007, 11:03 pm / milleniumfalcon, animation, lego, starwars, stopmotion, youtube

Top XSS exploits by PageRank. Yahoo!, MSN, Google, YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook all feature.

# 29th May 2007, 10:07 pm / yahoo, msn, google, youtube, facebook, xss, pagerank, security

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. Absolutely worth watching—don’t be put off by the title.

# 5th February 2007, 11:05 pm / web2, youtube