Archive for January, 2007

Youtube megamix

I’m trying to validate my theory about Youtube playlists half-life. My previous experience showed me that a list of Marilyn Manson videos had 75% of video dissappear over a two-week period.
Now, I have a sample that could actually let me calculate it in a scientific manner. This list of youtube music videos contains 11,500 songs, […]

Youtube problem with Quicktime

I just tried uploading a Quicktime (.MOV) file to Youtube. I got no error, everything went smoothly but this is what the video looks like:

The video codec is Sorenson 3, the audio is encoded as MP3 and plays fine. Anyone else had this problem?
Tags: apple, codec, gootube, quicktime, sorenson, youtube

iPhone parody

Gootube is an amazing productivity killer. A colleague of mine just sent me this parody of an iPhone commercial.

Seriously though, I’d love to see if the iPhone can run vintage computer games like Star Control or maybe even Diablo!

Tags: gootube, iphone, iPod, Steve Jobs, video, youtube

iPhone premiere

Engadget has splattered images of the new iPhone all over the homepage.
All I can say is … I LOVE IT.
It looks much better than the drawings found in the patent filing. It also looks MUCH better than all the fake iPhones submitted by wannabe industrial designers.
An important point is that the touch screen can play […]

Steve Jobs day

Macworld starts today in San Francisco and the hype machine is churning all kinds of Apple news.
Most of the speculation centers around two anticipated products, both dubbed with Apple’s signature “i” prefix: iTV and iPhone.
The iTV is reportedly a digital video recording device and according to industry experts times more likely than the fabled […]

Saddam hanging video

As far as I can tell, the site that first posted it was the Indie Rock Cafe. A site normally dedicated to indie music doesn’t look back when they have something sensational.
By now, there’s no discussion on who posted it first because it can be found on Youtube and Google Video, possibly on other video […]