Tag: KOTTKE

A lot of people don't know that YouTube has high quality videos, as well as the generally poor-quality standard versions. The links to the better (not HD, but still pretty good) versions are easy to miss, but there are a few steps you can take to make sure you're watching (and even embedding) the good stuff. Jason Kottke ran through a few of them recently on kottke.org. First, make high-quality ...

Thinking about building the next Web 2.0 sensation? You might want to weigh history just a bit. Marc Hedlund, founder of Wesabe, says Web 2.0 is just a bunch of old Unix commands wrapped in pretty Web interfaces. He makes a fairly convincing case; IM/Aim/ICQ/Gtalk? That's all just talk and finger. Google? That's just a sophisticated implementation of find and grep. Kottke takes it one step ...