YouTube has added a cool new feature that helps viewers see more related clips, even from an embedded video in a blog, social networking site, or any other web page. Now when a video has completed playing, several related videos pop up and even copy URL or embed code directly from that clip window.
Here is the video that the YouTube Blog uses to show off their new addition, and, following their lead, I will too:
Although Microsoft battles it out with Apple and Sony, the real war is with Adobe. Since Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia and essentially all things Flash, they have become the new king of web. The future is all about immediate content delivery and who can do it best. Right now almost every video delivered on the web uses the Flash plug-in. Microsoft has been completely left out of that equation but they’re not going down without a fight. The silver lining to their dilemma is a plug-in called Silverlight.
Silverlight works just like Flash in that media files and interactive applications can be delivered and played on both Macs and PCs, on any browser. Where Silverlight really shines is HD. Unlike Flash, Silverlight supports full streaming 720p video and offers seamless transitions between fullscreen and windowed mode without losing your position in the video or restarting the stream. The plug-in is also scalable to work in mobile devices and other embedded applications.
Silverlight promises to be and do everything Flash can’t. My only question is, where’s Apple in all this? Hit the jump for the hot demo of Silverlight.
The Opera browser is one of the most powerful and extensible cross platform browsers out there. So when Nintendo and Opera announced the Wii’s Internet channel would be powered by Opera - nerdcore geeks rejoiced. For the rest of us, disappointment. The beta version of Wii Opera used an old Flash 7 player. Many hoped that misstep was only a side effect of beta software but now that the final version of Wii Opera has been released, the browser is still hobbled with Flash 7. Wii ask why?
“The simple answer is that it’s out of both Opera and Nintendo’s hands. If you want to run Flash outside of Windows, Linux or Mac, you need the Flash SDK (software development kit) which is made by Adobe. The problem is Adobe hasn’t released their SDKs for Flash 8 or 9 and until they do so, we’re stuck with Flash 7.”
So there you have it. Don’t blame Nintendo for the outdated Flash player. If you got words, you know who to go after - Adobe.
One can never have too many gigs especially when you’re toting around pirated music and videos. Fortunately for us, Toshiba saw fit to keep cramming more memory into their line of slick USB flash drives. Their latest offering pimps out with 16GB and has embedded Vista security features, whatever that means.
