Soundcloud is a free audio third-party (a.k.a. “not my problem”) service that allows you to post, share, receive, send and download audio files with anyone, anywhere. Also allows you to manage your audio files efficiently and effectively in “the cloud”.
Add:&fmt=18 to the end of the YouTube video URL will play the video in HQ (high quality).
Add:&fmt=22 to the end of the YouTube video URL will play the video in HD (high definition).
Regular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVvx13dpTEA
High Quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVvx13dpTEA&fmt=18
High Definition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVvx13dpTEA&fmt=22
If a video is not available in HQ or HD, then they will not be able to be shown in those formats.
Hardly a buzz-word, more the “hail-mary” of markup language progression, HTML5 brings very important tags and standards to the web.
First and foremost, HTML5 solves the question from that last couple of years of what DOCTYPE to use with XHTML.
<!DOCTYPE html>
John Resig (creator of jQuery) has the best write-up on HTML5 link to John Resig site.
HTML5 also brings three new “Flash killer” tags (when I write “Flash killer” I intend that a lot of frivolous reasons people use flash for, will be replaced by these tags, not flash will be gone).
The <video> tag (YouTube demo) will eventually replace Flash Video, and hopefully SilverLight too, because it offers no reliance on Flash and better compatibility with mobile devices of the future. As in it is easier to detect a video format to play based on browser than to have a flash video player mobile device. Also, flash video does have some basic limitation and does sometimes hog more CPU than required to show a video. Especially if you can have a more core level video decompression happening on a machine. One issue that has been popping-up is the age old, what video codec to support. My two cents say, doesn’t really matter, browsers should try to support as many as they can and a clear winner will prevail, hopefully one that doesn’t exist yet. Van Kesteren has a good write-up on the issue, he is a bit biased though.
<audio> has less of a struggle, because MP3 is supreme and it would be great to see Soundmanager get an upgrade in using this new tag. This would replace the enormous amount of small flash mp3 players that are scattered about the web.
And <canvas> tag. I’ve seen this used in several new beta web apps and the best HTML5 canvas tag online demo to date. It’s pretty crazy what kind of stuff is already being made with this tag and javascript.
An amazing video service for your phone. It allows you to post your videos from your phone and they are shown in a flash video player. They also create feeds from your account that can be accessed via RSS, iTunes (coolio) and several other feed services. The videos you post also allow you to add a title and description. If you’re phone offers the service it can also GEO-tag your video.
The most amazing part of this service is… live video streaming from your phone, which is then saved and posted on your feed. Mind you, you have to be on a Telus / Bell network (EVDO), have unlimited data and a blackberry with a video record option. Luckily I fall into all three of those categories. Unfortunately, I have yet to produce a video worth linking. I will, when I do.
This is a great service for the following reasons:
Good service, check it out.