UPDATE! I have reached a settlement with Sky. tl;dr Sky News stole my copyrighted work and distributed it without credit or payment. I asked them to pay £1,500. They refused. Full Story During the recent O2 brouhaha I recorded a video showing how the issue could affect people. I deliberately gave it the standard YouTube [...]
Sometimes a mobile advert is just so bad that you wonder what drugs the people who commissioned were on. Easy A is new film aimed squarely a the youth market. Perfect fodder for mobile advertising. Cute little advert, doesn’t say what it will link to, but other than that, not bad. So let’s click through [...]
I’ve decided to add a preview of YouTube videos into Dabr, the mobile Twitter service. The code is fairly simple – although I still suck at regular expressions. if (preg_match_all(‘#youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([_-\d\w]+)#’, $tmp, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER) > 0) { foreach ($matches[1] as $match) { $images[] = theme(‘external_link’, “http://m.youtube.com/watch?v={$match}”, “<img src=’http://i.ytimg.com/vi/{$match}/1.jpg’ class=’twitpic’ />”); } } Here’s how it looks. [...]
Jul 132009
I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere else. It would appear that the mobile version of YouTube now includes links to QR codes, so you can share the video with your friends. I’ve only seen this using the Android browser, I’m not sure if it’s available on other devices. Browsing http://m.youtube.com/ at the bottom is a [...]
This blog is XHTML 1.0 Strict. Unfortunately, the code produced by YouTube for embeding their videos isn’t. Nor is it compatible with the dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack. This scrap of code is a WordPress Plugin. it allows me to write something like [youtube id="p5ACl4iBGd0"] The code then outputs either the XHTML 1.0 embeding code or [...]
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