Portable Video

It takes a lot for a music video to grab my attention anymore. Arcade Fire’s HTML5 collaboration with Google, however, does a pretty damn good job. Head over to The Wilderness Downtown, punch in the address of the home where you grew up, and watch the magic unfold. The “experience” is definitely one of the [...]

It looks like Google isn’t stopping at free phone calls to the U.S. and Canada In their never-ending quest to win new fans. They’re also going to let you watch all the free, full-length movies you can handle over on YouTube! That’s good. The selection, however, doesn’t include current releases and there aren’t a lot [...]

Over at StuffWeLike they’ve posted a video gem from Comic Con 2010 (of all places) of Google TV being demoed to attendees. Comic Con? Hey, a demo’s a demo — who are we to argue? What you’ll see in the video after the break is darn near a geek’s TV dream come true. Apart from [...]

If you’re an Android user seething over the fact that the iPad and the iPhone are getting Netflix streaming before you do, seethe no more! A Netflix employee has confirmed the company is hiring developers to begin work on the Android app, and the company’s job listings on Reddit corroborate his information. As Mashable points [...]

online-ConVert looks suspicious. The formatting is wonky, the name is poorly capitalized, and the whole thing looks really unreliable. I almost didn’t cover it. But then I decided to go ahead and give it a chance, and I was pleasantly surprised by how thorough the service is. I tested it by converting a small MP3 [...]

While the spate of upcoming Windows 7 tablets may never get your engine running the way the Courier did, a company called UI Centric is hoping that their slick, touch-friendly interface might pique your interest. Dubbed Macallan, UI Centric plans to license the interface to OEMs for use on devices running Windows 7 or Windows [...]

So you’ve created a slick iPhone app only to be handed a rejection from the boys in Cupertino? Back to the drawing board, then… and time to take a good, hard look at alternative ways to get your project in the hands of iDevice owners. For PlayOn, the answer was an HTML5 web app — [...]

The time limit on YouTube videos for regular accounts has been expanded from 10 to 15 minutes, giving amateur directors a little more freedom to post short films. Of course, 15 minutes is also enough time to upload a big segment of a TV show or movie, but it sounds like YouTube now trusts its [...]

If you love data visualization, this one’s going to blow your mind: I just found an incredible IBM demo, called World Factbook Dashboard. It basically takes a ton of demographic and economic data (from the CIA World Factbook, I presume) and presents it in several beautiful ways that (mostly) make instant sense. This is one [...]

Most of you have probably embedded a YouTube video at one time or another, even if it’s just to share it on Facebook. Because copying and pasting is so easy, you might not have paid much attention to the embed code itself, though. Well, now’s a good time to start looking, because YouTube is changing [...]