I’m pretty sure these kind of nasty pixelated ads are why more people are switching on Ad-Blockers.
1/ Join Free, Flirt Now.
2/ I built a Free website.
I don’t trust them, I wouldn’t click on them. Plus how cheap does it make YouTube look – and the video content. (The flirt ad is the main offender here, at least the Yola ad has some design around the stock photo).
The only bonus is that someone has written a great little spoof “link building” comment underneath.
Feels like an age since I wrote about a nice “MPU” or “expandable”. The online ad world has moved so fast and into so many different areas that it’s nice to see to a piece of work that restores my faith in the art. I love the craft in it.
Showing that Vimeo will let you get a bit creative on their site too here’s a nice “takeover”.
There’s no snazzy interactivity jut sit back, press play, and enjoy the animation/code razzle dazzle.
Screenshots:
To experience it properly you need to view it on Vimeo (hmmm. I’ve thought of a new ad format).
Right-click and it’ll help you figure out how they do it.
There’s a couple of little things missing, like a website link in the description underneath. Plus I’m not sure how people are finding it.
I find Vimeo a bit less social than YouTube. That’s not necessarily a bad thing on some occasions. But It’s made its way to me OK (3-times in fact) so I guess they’re doing something right!
Perched on top of an Atlas V rocket, on February 11 the Solar Dynamics Observatory launched into space. About a minute after leaving the Earth, the rocket did two things: it passed the speed of sound, and screamed past a sundog, a rainbow-colored optical effect in the sky caused by ice crystals. And when it did it was incredible.
Open in YouTube. Go full screen. Click the “720″ button.
Pay close attention around the 1min 50sec mark.
Those ripples were caused by the shockwave of the rocket going through the cloud, which quickly dispersed. Since the cloud had ice crystals in it, the sundog got literally blown away.
Vimeo have rolled out a shiny new mobile site – and yes it looks at gorgeous as website. All videos are served in H.264 goodness. I like the little touches, like the fact Vimeo removes the Safari “browser” shell. You’ll have to see what I mean for yourself.
The choice of H.264 encoding is significant because it means another prominent site is making video available in a non-Flash format. In a similar vein Vimeo also launched a beta of their new HTML5 player, and Google is now testing an HTML5 version of YouTube.
The Clavilux 2000 is an interactive instrument for generative music visualization.
The setting of the installation consists of three parts:
- a digital piano with 88 keys and midi output
- a computer running a vvvv patch
- a vertical projection above the keyboard.
For every note played on the keyboard a new visual element appears in form of a stripe, which follows in its dimensions, position and speed the way the particular key was stroke.
Colours give the viewer and listener an impression of the harmonic relations – and each key has it’s own color scheme and “wrong” notes stand out in contrasting colors.
Would love to see Les Dawson do his piano ‘routine’ on it.
EDIT
For people who have no idea who I’m talking about – here’s the man himself.
Lady GaGa cleaned up at the BRITS last night. Within 20 minutes this appeared on Twitter. It’s a list of the most frequently deleted tracks / scrobbles by the Last.fm community in January 2010.
Are people embarrassed to admit they like her, or is she a bit shit? You tell me.
Google Buzz is easily the boldest attempt yet to build a social network by Google. Imagine taking elements of Twitter, Yammer, Foursquare, Yelp, and other social services, and shoving them together into one package.
Now imagine covering that package in a layer that looks a lot like FriendFeed. Now imagine shoving that package inside of Gmail. That’s Buzz.
Google Buzz
Google Buzz for Mobile
Sounds overwhelming but can’t wait to give it a go.
