Archive for July, 2010

Youtube Releases New Embed Code And 4k Resolution

Google owned Youtube is testing new code for playing/embedding videos. The new code uses an iframe and actually embeds the video using HTML 5, meaning it doesn’t require flash, or any other plugins at all. Pretty cool! Here’s an example of using the new embed code: <iframe type=”text/html” width=”640″ height=”385″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID” frameborder=”0″></iframe> The video will [...]

Wolfram | Alpha

I remember reading about this a long time ago and only just saw that it has gone live: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ The idea is that you ask a question, and unlike Google where you are (usually) presented with a list of potentially relevant resources, you are given an answer. It still doesn’t understand a lot of things [...]