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 only play in HTML5 if certain conditions are met, such as the user having opted in, and the video not containing ads.

Another interesting update for Youtube recently was support for 4k resolution videos. While 1080p is 1920×1080 resolution, 4k is a whopping 4096×3072! Unfortunately most processors/graphics cards can’t even handle it yet, mine certainly doesn’t To try it out just change the video mode on the Youtube player for applicable videos to ‘Original.’

Here’s both updates in action:

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 but presumably will improve over time. However, as far as ‘ask engines’ go, Wolfram is very promising and powerful.

As a test one of the first questions I asked was “how many employees does telus have?”, here’s the Google response:

Now the Wolfram response (pretty impressive!)

Source: Shopping on the iPad – Website Magazine

Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-with-encrypted.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU

This commercial entitled “Parisian Love” was aired by Google during the 2010 Superbowl. It’s the first time the company has broadcast an ad on TV, and also the first time Google has advertised their brand, having been previously opposed to doing so. It’s a touching video, very well done. Perhaps Bing is having a larger impact than I expected? Eric Schmidt (CEO) explained:

“If you watched the Super Bowl this evening you’ll have seen a video from Google called “Parisian Love”. In fact you might have watched it before, because it’s been on YouTube for over three months. We didn’t set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search. Our goal was simply to create a series of short online videos about our products and our users, and how they interact. But we liked this video so much, and it’s had such a positive reaction on YouTube, that we decided to share it with a wider audience.

If you like it too, we hope you’ll watch the others. Enjoy.”

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The conference aims to educate and innovate on all aspects of user experience, from building out an MX strategy, to creating business cases and obtaining buy-in from the company, to tracking results.

If you’re interested in creating leading experiences on the web (or elsewhere!) and can be in San Fran on March 7-8, you should check it out! Here’s a link to register.

Happy MXing!

1) First, make sure you are already using Google Analytics on your site (or the page that you want to track events).

2) Second, add this snippet just below the Google Analytics code:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
function trackEvent(category,url,description) {
try {
pageTracker._trackEvent(category, description, document.location.pathname);
setTimeout(‘document.location = “‘ + url + ‘”‘, 100);
} catch(err){}
}
</script>

4) Whenever you want to track something, you need to add a call to trackEvent, for example:

<a onclick=”trackEvent(‘Outbound Links’,'http://google.com’,'Google’);return false;” href=”http://google.com”> Google </a>

5) Now log into Google Analytics, click on ‘Content’ -> ‘Event Tracking’ you will be able to see clicks on the above link to Google (you might not see it right away!)

Happy tracking!