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If Your Website Has Videos, Then You’re Crazy Not To Be Embedding Them From YouTube

If Your Website Has Videos, Then You’re Crazy Not To Be Embedding Them From YouTube

By Ryan Van Etten on 12/08/2010

8 Advantages To Embedding Videos From YouTube OR Vimeo—as opposed to streaming from your own host in a custom player 1. No bandwidth strain or maintenance issues. 2. Visitors get player controls that they’re already used to. 3. Shareability. 4. It works. Everywhere. Always. (plays on iPhone etc.) 5. Easy as f*** to implement (copy [...]

Posted in Music, Music Flux | Tagged Atari Teenage Riot, best practices, embedding, Fusion, Fusion 2010, Google, live music, music web design, shareability, social media, social music, stats, syndication, tips, traffic, Tube Mogul, UK, usability, UX, video, video player, Vimeo, web design, YouTube | Leave a response

Music Autoplay: On or Off? [Poll]

Music Autoplay: On or Off? [Poll]

By Ryan Van Etten on 05/11/2010

Have you ever visited a band’s website or MySpace page only to be blown out of your chair by a blaring music player? Usually the first thing I do is try to figure out how to turn it off, and, if I can’t figure that out in one nanosecond, I often exit the page and never return. Is this really the message one wants to send to their website visitors? Probably not. But maybe I’m a freak and the majority disagrees, so I ask, what do you think?

Posted in Design, Discussion, Music, Music Flux, Popular | Tagged autoplay, band websites, best practices, engagement, music web design, MusicBiz, poll, pros and cons, web design | 9 Responses

Imagination In Virtual Education Worlds: VWBPE 2010

Imagination In Virtual Education Worlds: VWBPE 2010

By Ryan Van Etten on 03/04/2010

This year’s Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference aims to focus on imagination. Themed Imagination Around the World, this free virtual event takes place in Second Life on March 12–13. Second Life is growing as a venue for education at multiple grade levels.

Posted in Education, Events, Infoculture, News, SL Events | Tagged augmented reality, best practices, collaboration, communication, conference, creativity, HARP, imagination, learning, Second Life, specialization, teaching, video, virtual worlds, VWBPE | 1 Response

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