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Ok Go – End love

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1 year ago
by kiedis in ,

OK Go is back with an amazing new video called “End Love”.
The band became famous with their ‘threadmiller choreography’ in the song Here it goes again.
They always have unconventional videos, and this is also why they left EMI (they wouldn’t let them make their own videos and they were wrong!) (more…)

100 youtube videos in 4 minutes!

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2 years ago
by kiedis in ,

If you lived in Mars for the past few years and you missed some videos in Youtube, here’s a little compilation of some of the best videos. This bring back many memories :)

via: Papy geek

IE 6 no longer supported

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2 years ago
by kiedis in ,
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Someone said “IE 6 is pretty much like cancer, for the web” and i think they are right.
It is an old browser it hasn’t evolved in years and its full of security flaws…
It is still used in many companies i know, i had the experience not long ago, with a client who had most of their computers with that browser.
Create a new website didn’t took me long, but make it work on IE 6 took me nearly as twice the time i used for coding the website.

IE 6 has to go its a dinosaur, webmasters waste too much time trying to adapt their websites to that browser.
The problem is IT people who don’t care about upgrading, will not care unless important websites stop working on this browser.
That is why several important websites are stopping their support on IE 6.

According to the W3C in June 2009 there were something like 14,9% of the people who were still surfing on IE 6. You can see the full stats here

Digg asked the people why are you still using IE 6
37% couldn’t upgrade because they don’t have admin rights to the machine (they have a crappy IT deparment who don’t really care about security)
32% can’t because they have someone telling them they can’t! (some people in their office like it the good ol’ times better…even if they are wrong)
17% think they don’t need to upgrade (or they are too lazy to do it)
7% can’t because their computer is old and they can’t have a newer version of windows (linux could be a good solution for these people)
7% preffer that browser (they probably didn’t try something else)
you can see the source for these stats here

Youtube, facebook have also announced they are stopping support on this browser and rumors says google will soon do the same.
Not having facebook or youtube will probably annoy lots of home users who had IE 6…but they can upgrade on their own…
Many companies block websites like facebook, youtube or digg to avoid people wasting their time on those websites (unless they are community managers for their company or something like that).
Google usually is not blocked in companies. If Google stop supporting IE 6 that will annoy lazy IT deparments for sure, they will get lots of calls from all their users and they will be pretty much forced to upgrade.

I have decided to stop support IE 6 on this website too. i know i don’t have lots of visitors with that browser but the web has to evolve and this website evolves too.
I will stop wasting my time making it compatible with that dinosaur.
From now on if you enter this website with that browser you will get a link to download a newer browser (IE 8, firefox, opera, safari, etc).

So, kiss goodbye IE 6 and Welcome HTML 5! :)

For those on twitter there is a petition going on here

via: mashable

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Home, a film for everyone

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2 years ago
by kiedis in , , ,

When i first saw “An inconvenient truth” by Al Gore, i thought, “this is a very good film everyone should watch it!”.
Now i just saw an amazing film called “Home” by Yann Arthus Bertrand the amazing photographer.

He believes the internet is a great tool to change people’s minds, so he did the opposite of what most people in the cinema industry would have done, he released his film online for free, in several languages.
I saw it on youtube, but i believe its better going to the cinema, and watching it with better quality because images are really beautiful and its very well composed visually.
Youtube is still a great choice for those who don’t have a cinema that show the film near their homes or don’t want to pay, but you’ll watch it with less quality (there is a better quality version if you click on the HD icon on youtube).
Now for the scary part a lot of facts are told in the film, and yes its scary and most facts are known, most people know the planet is not going well and that we are destroying everything, its all over the news everyday. But most people don’t know how bad it is, so i hope this helps somehow change people’s mind.

What can you do after watching the film? You can go to their official forum to discuss your ideas with other people on this film, or you can start sending letters to people in your goverment to start caring about the 2009 copenhagen summit (it will replace the kyoto protocol, so it is very important). There is lots of things we can all do even if they are small its better than nothing check oxfam’s website for more information on what you can do ;)

So here’s the film and the links to watch it in different languages
English with subtitles
Spanish
Russian
German
French

Enjoy the film :)

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