In October, we introduced our new website – Joost.com. With our new website, you’re able to watch all of our videos – TV shows, music videos, and films – right in your web browser.
At this point, we have decided to discontinue our original Joost software application. As of Friday, Dec. 19th, you will no longer be able to watch videos in the Joost software application – but you will be able to find all of our videos, and more, on Joost.com.
Log on to Joost.com today for a complete online video experience!
Your friends at Joost (end of quote)
I welcome this idea very much – with today’s browser and streaming technology, you do not really need to install special applications any longer. Plus: now you can watch it from any computer you like – as long as a browser is installed, which should be the case.
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It seems like Google Reader is a little picky when it comes to including and showing embedded flash videos: YouTube movies seem to work fine, but I do not get it to show some other flash movies, e.g. the one shown on wordpress.org for WP 2.7: that one shows fine on my blog as well as on the Feedburner feed – but even though I use the same code for it as I use for YouTube videos, it won’t show in Google Reader.
[Update from 2008-12-17]
OK, here is the answer to my problem (quoting):
We have taken a whitelist approach to embedded video, thus we’ll need to include WordPress for its embeds to show up. This should happen in the next Reader release.
Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer (end of quote)
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Recently, I had the strange feeling that my WordPress editor reacted a little VERY slowly when creating a new post. So, I used the Firefox addon Live HTTP Headers to see what was going on – and found the culprit: every time I opened the editor, Google Gears was pretty busy connecting and downloading.
After deactivating it, everything works smoothly again now.
Well, I might be wrong, but isn’t Google Gears supposed to speed things up rather than slowing everything down?
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Siehe auch Robert Basic’s Blog, bei dem ich den Link zum Selbergestalten des Posters gefunden habe. Man kann übrigens auch ein eigenes Foto hochladen… vielleicht mache ich das noch.
[Update]
So sieht das dann mit eigenem Foto aus:
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[Update from 2008-12-15] Lorelle VanFossen has some nice upgrade tips for WordPress 2.7 – of course. I should have looked there earlier. Nice article, Lorelle!
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Recently, Torsten had the very nice idea of caching the Flickr badge script locally with a cron job. I have also seen a similar idea for keeping a local copy of the Google Analytics script at askapache.com. Unfortunately, I am not so familiar with setting up cron jobs on Apache, so I thought it would be easier to use the WordPress built-in cron system.
The guys behind WordPress have released a new version 2.6.5 that fixes a security issue and three bugs as can be read on the official WordPress Blog, so go update!
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
Nice article, Lorelle!
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