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01 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

IBM’s ‘Mad Science’ Series

The IBM Social Media channel on YouTube has been posted several videos to promote aSmarterPlanet.com, all with the common theme of using data, computing and analytics to make our world run smarter. It’s nerd-tastic!

Once you look past the unnecessary (and unfunny) humour that they include in these videos, this really is a nice little series. [...]

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12 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Economics and Ecology

I’m a big fan of the VlogBrothers, two brothers who make daily youtube videos addressed to each other (but also to a wider audience). In today’s video one of the brothers, Hank, attempts to give the other brother – and the rest of the viewers – a quick overview of “Ecosystem Services“. To quote Hank [...]

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21 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

5 Great Uses of YouTube Annotations

Youtube annotations allow video creators to add clickable links to certain parts of their videos. This was originally designed to create simple transitions from one video to another, but as with all technologies the best results have come from putting it to previously unimagined uses.
Here are four of the best examples of how it’s done, [...]

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16 March 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Signs

I found this video today (via MJ). It’s one of the nicest short films I’ve seen in a long time, and is well worth the 12mins of your time. (click if you can’t view the video below).

One of my first thoughts for the video was “this should be an ad for Twitter”. Is it wrong [...]

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05 February 2009 ~ 1 Comment

What A Brilliant Idea

An interactive youtube quiz game

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