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The art of commenting to posts varies greatly in the quality of their execution – passing between the truly insightful to the utterly inane.
College Humor has create a fantastic video to demonstrate how the feeble end of the comment-scale would play out if used in a business meeting.
Continue reading Blog Comments In The Real World: Hilarious Video
Yesterday we looked at the YouTube player and how it became so successful so quickly. In this final part, you’ll see how you can free yourself of YouTube and other video serving sites and DIY.
Doing It Yourself
We’re now entering the next era of embedding video on your site – Doing It Yourself.
Continue reading Your Own Embedded Flash Video Player: HowTo Part II
Putting video on your site or blog using someone else’s embedded video player is pretty old hat these days – there are just so many tools and services around to help you.
We know things move pretty fast on the Internet, so we thought we’d bring you up to speed with an emerging stage beyond YouTube-esque sites – running your own embedded video player.
Continue reading Your Own Embedded Flash Video Player: HowTo
We’ll be sooooooooo glad when today is over. This blessed iPhone launch is just getting totally out of control.
The latest daft part of the over-coverage is that Mogulus, providers of online video tools, are running a dedicated iPhone Launch TV channel.
Watch it after the jump
Continue reading iPhone Madness: Live Web TV Channel In NY Shop
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Adrian Westaway’s project, Magic Light, lets you guide a light to a different location merely by waving your hands in the direction you want to move the light.
The lack of ‘interface’ means that there’s no age restriction, as using it is as simple as moving your hand around.
Continue reading Adrian Westaway: Magic Light: RCA 2007
Here’s the Friday funny video of the week.
Two young bucks have tried to make the most out of a huge amount of PCs that must have been hanging around the office.
It looks like they must have been left alone over a weekend and given this, decided to get creative.
It’s been around for a little while – it was uploaded late April – but given the language used “dot com crash,” it sounds like it was at least a few years back.
None of this diminishes the entertainment we think you’ll get from watching it.
Watch it after the jump
Continue reading Friday Video: Domino PCs
We’ve all seen the video of Microsoft showing off the surface table that lets you interact in what is now a novel way.
We’ve found a video that brilliantly mocks it.
Continue reading Microsoft Surface Parody Video: Brilliant!
Much relief for the relatives and friends of BBC Journalist Alan Johnson as a video of him speaking, apparently in good health, has appeared on the Internet.
Many sites are now carrying it, like the BBC itself and The Telegraph, but in typical media fashion they have chosen to edit the video. We’ve embedding the video below.
Novell have done a great collection of spoof ads of Apple’s “I’m a Mac” series, you know, the ones that had a UK launch in January this year.
While playing to the same music and video style, it mocks the self congratulatory styles and adds a third character … Linux. Rather than the obvious blokes, it uses a woman to represent Linux.
The UK equivalent of the Apple US Switch campaign was launched today in the UK. Featuring Mitchell & Webb, well known and highly-respected UK comics, they maintain the signature people-standing-in-front–of-a-white-backgrounds look of other Apple campaigns.
The casting is perfect, with the PC played by David Mitchell and Robert Webb being the Mac – the business/casual roles they played in the genius TV venture, Peep Show.
Apple must be spending large on this as it’s all over the UK MySpace pages, with double ads showing on a lot of the pages.
Clearly riding on the shirt-tails of the world’s obsession with iPods, through this campaign Apple, are attempting to persuade iPod-owners that their computing lives could be just as beautiful as their music lives. By the look of the last Quarter’s figures from Apple, where they sold just over a million Macs and over 21 million iPods, it’s not a bad idea to increase your computer sales.
There’s three campaigns in the wild at the moment, Restart; Virus and Office, are all worth a watch. Luckily someone (just perhaps, just perhaps, the advertising company!) has put the adverts up on YouTube – a pretty neat trick for something that hasn’t been on TV yet.
Restart plays on the fact that PCs freeze and often crash during use, while Macs don’t suffer this to the same degree – although it’s not unknown.
Virus takes great delight in the 140k new viruses that were created for PCs last year, while the number of Mac viruses remains minimal – something that might change if lots more people starts buying Macs.
Office encourages people to detach their home PCs from being associated from the work PC, which is normally a PC – what this will do to people who have Macs at work is yet to be established.
Quite what Mitchell thinks of being cast as the dorky PC is unknown, but we suspect he’ll be mopping up his tears with his bulging appearance fee cheque.
BTW – Our fave Apple advert remains the Home Movie.