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We have all been in the situation, you visit a webpage that has some content of an audio/visual variety, and you are presented with a choice of file formats. What will it be sir? Realplayer, Quicktime, or Windows Media Player.
- RealPlayer (ah no due to my last windows reinstall it has not associated itself with the filetype, so I’ll have to load it from the Program Files directory, no thats some bloatware, ah thats the main .exe, sit while it fetches it bloated media welcome page, then open the URL, and wait while it buffers and possible times out)
- Quicktime (ah no did I install that bloatware yet, em oh yes there is the annoying icon by the clock, ok lets click ah no whats that ahrd drive trashing about, oh it demonstrating Parkinson’s law by loading the file in a way that uses all the RAM regardless of how much it has)
- Windows Media Player (it is installed by default, and even if its not the latest version it will actially update, but its made by Microsoft)
- Flashplayer (excellent it will always work)
Why doesn’t everyone make their content available via a Flash player? YouTube do, and I think that is the secret of their success, it just simply works. There was a time I’ll admit, when I enjoyed configuring the other players to actually work, for example back in the hazy days of 1995 on Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups!) I used Quicktime to view JPGs. But then again I had no alternative.
This bring me to he success of YouTube, there are many reasons for its success, even in 1995 I people exchanged funny videos of cats playing pianos in AVI format, and most recent commentators have reaffirmed their enjoyment at viewing same even today, they call it social networking or em web2.0 or something, but how come there is not more praise for the Flash player. Continue reading ‘I hate Realplayer and Quicktime’
Online video is not just a toy
Published April 11th, 2007 in rip off republic, youtube, irish government and uncategorized. 0 CommentsIt seems that political parties and other large organisations are coming to the realisation (thanks in large to YouTube) that online video is not just a toy. This is a copy of the earlier realisation that a website was not just a vehicle for advertising a phone number.
The Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland has produced a 17 minute guidance video. As a (wealthy?) businessman I thought I should watch it to see if I need to register with another official body and waste some more money, but for some unknown reason the online mov version is only 60 seconds long. Perhaps they wish to make a profit from sales of the DVD version? No that is free, so I must conclude the real reason is they want the names and addresses of those viewing the video, so they can cross-check their details against the register and pursue those who are not registered, or perhaps they just consider online videos to be a toy? Continue reading ‘Online video is not just a toy’
YouTube the home of the meme of the moment is delighted to present, and you wanted to see it, Sammy Stephens of Montgomery Flea Market (Montgomery, AL, USA) raps. Reminds me of early WIll Smiths 1998 album “He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper” 
Will it blend?
Published November 16th, 2006 in will it blend, youtube, viral marketing and uncategorized. 0 CommentsBlendTec makes a hyperbole blender, and Blendtec has a marketing department to match.
Who or what is Blendtec? Up to yesterday I had no idea, but after seeing their promotional videos on YouTube I can now sing their praises.
The series of videos is entitled “Will it blend?â€, and features a trustworthy middle aged white man called Tom Dickson demonstrating the strenght of the the Blendtec brand blender. As all blender users will know strenght is the key, how many times have you seen someone cursing the weakness of a Kenwood as it struggles to cut a lettuce leaf? well perhaps never, but we can assume it must happen. You see blending food is not exciting, and Blendtec realises this so instead of Blending leaves with ease they go a step further and for illustration purposes they blend golf balls, rake handles, glass marbles and so on, which is exciting, and thus is interesting to the lucrative internet user of the male variety with a disposable income. As a final stroke of marketing genius Blendtec have put together a website to match the campaign over at willitblend.com.
In the words of veer the “It’s Mythbusters, Jackass, and a K-TEL commercial rolled into one”, and indeed at the start of the video behind the the presenter some text says “Blendtec is a division of K-TEC”, are they related ?
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