Category: Internet

YouTube Behind The Times

YouTube.com has released a new player that mixes YouTube videos together. This “custom player” allows you to customize the name of the player, color theme, and video display layout. The videos come straight from a YouTube user’s playlist, favorites list, or the user’s own uploaded videos.

Here’s our YouTube example:

Now first with the good: the way that the video thumbnails are displayed is fantastic! Glossy, iTunes-ness gorgeous!

Now for the this is crappy portion: no Full Screen view, background colors only? – why not pictures for more in-depth branded players, and there is no way to categorize the videos – they all get lumped together into one player.I’m being serious here in saying that YouTube sucks. It’s an old fashioned system that needs some major updates to catch up with newer video sites that have higher quality video, no site branding, and are skinless.

That’s why I submit to you the future of StuffWeLike.com’s player The Pipeline! Get ready for the future of the multimedia experience. This new version (seen below) is planned to release in roughly 3 weeks.

The Pipeline v2.0

Major props to SplashCast for creating a great technology that allows users to create their own shows while still being able to syndicate other users shows **cough cough search for The Pipeline** all in one player.

Testing, Test test 1, 2, 1, 2

If you’re a die-hard StuffWeLike.com fan, and we know that you all are, you may have first noticed that we’ve released a new design for the website. Secondly you may have noticed that the speed on the blog has been a little slow for some unknown reason. We’re trying a few things out and have enabled a fast php program, which hopefully will speed up the load times on the blog and throughout the site.

Please let us know if you notice any improvements or even sever downtimes. Remember to be vigilant.

What would you do with a 40 gigabits/sec fiber-optic connection?

Internet

While many internet users are stuck with connection speeds that are well under 1 gigabit, a 75 year-old Swedish woman named Sigbritt Lothberg is able to get 40 gigabits per second! To bad she only uses the internet for reading web-based newspapers.

At her connection rate she’d be able to download full-length movies in literally two seconds! Hafsteinn Jonsson and Lothberg’s son are the ones that built this fastest residential uplink in the world. They were able to connect two routers 1,240 miles apart without any transponders.

Please come to my house and give me that connection, please!

[Via Yahoo]

Cloverfield, another look into madness

[Update] – Check out more of our Cloverfield Coverage!

Okay, Garbled Zombie posted two articles about this movie a few weeks ago but much of the article is littered with information that has since been proven false. EthanHaasWasRight is not related to Cloverfield, this has been confirmed by producer J.J. Abrams, in fact it seems to viral marketing for a game called Alpha-Omega. So, while EHWR is not for Cloverfield there are viral Marketing sites out there. One of those all-but-confirmed sites is Slusho, but there is evidence backing up this claim. A scene in the trailer shows a character wearing a shirt with the slusho logo and name on it.

Picture of character with help from the 1-18-08 fanblog

Now, not only is that in the movie, but the company has been tied directly to past Abrams works. The name Slusho was in an episode of Alias, which was produced by Abrams himself, as an Icee type company. The site itself has been stated as a marketing site for Cloverfield by an inside source according to NBC, but not by Paramount of Abrams. The site is strange to say the least. The product’s history is riddled with more than it’s share of Engrish translations and shows a very mysterious past about the company’s creator and his family. The likelihood of the site being fake is slim, but still possible.

third official picture

Now since the last few posts another picture has come up. It doesn’t provide much, if any, information, but it’s definitely after the “attack” by the parasite. The smoke could be anything, an expulsion of gas from the parasite or just smoke from the falling debris of the surrounding buildings. Something that has been pointed out in the the last picture though, a girl in the lower right hand corner of the party has a photoshopped number on her, the number 9. The significance of this has yet to be seen.
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The Pipeline v2.0

The Pipeline v2.0

Here it is! The above image is what our media player The Pipeline will look like in roughly 3 weeks. The technology behind The Pipeline, SplashCast has been working hard at improving the player in many ways.

The mega improvement here is that you can now navigate each show through a series of thumbnails. You can also make the player full screen by pressing a button directly in the player.

Please leave any comments that you have about this new design of the player, whether good or bad. We need all the feedback so we can provide you with the most user friendly player around the net!