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TelstraClear, are you embarrassed yet?

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YouTube Video Speed History clearly shows how awful TelstraClear is for playing YouTube videos: one third the global speed, and half the average New Zealand speed.

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TelstraClear’s YouTube stutter

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There’s something very wrong at TelstraClear NZ: some cable Internet subscribers just can’t watch YouTube videos smoothly. Here’s my experience.

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Are you thinking video?

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YouTube has taken hold of the public imagination. Are you working with that fact, or are you being sidelined?

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How to embed YouTube videos without invalid code

I’m developing a new blog and decided to check the validity of what I was doing. Once I recovered from the shock of 67 errors I realised that 2 embedded YouTube videos may well have been contributing problems. So I went searching and found this excellent advice:
If you’re looking to embed a YouTube video [...]

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International Year of Astronomy 2009 has a trailer

Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy Blog pointed to the trailer for the International Year of Astronomy in 2009. It’s really inspiring. Having relinquished some of my voluntary obligations to make some extra free time in my life, I’m hoping I’ll be able to focus a bit more on astronomy this year and next.
Much has [...]

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How to use YouTube Videos in a Keynote presentation

Every trainer knows not to rely on technology working correctly, so I decided to include a couple of YouTube videos in a presentation I’m creating, not just link to them.
The problem was that Keynote.app doesn’t seem to respond to the .flv files you end up with after downloading a YouTube video. When I dragged [...]

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Web 2.0 Word Builder

The Internet is abuzz with a whole new vocabulary: memes and tags, posts and mashups, LOLcats, tweets and RSS. Friends, characters, flag, subscribe and interesting have a whole new meaning. This article helps you find your way in the new Web 2.0 world.

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letters, numbers, symbols, or spaces. When you send a txt message [...]

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Kiwis like Internet relationships

In February 2008 Nielsen Online revealed that most New Zealand Internet users are generating web content. (Source: 02/26/2008 Consumer Generated Media: Evolution or Revolution?. )
We like photos, videos, music, blogs
In plain English: we share photos, links and videos, through websites such as Flickr, YouTube, MySpace. We read and write blogs and wikis. We [...]

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Make an offline copy of a YouTube video

I’m preparing to present a keynote at a conference in April. Right now I’m just gathering ideas and resources, but there are several YouTube videos I may be interested in showing.
As any presenter knows, if the Internet’s involved it doesn’t pay to rely on being able to go online — it’s best to have [...]

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Discover the Social Web

The Internet has utterly changed in the last couple of years, as the primary emphasis moves from storing and sharing information to connecting people.
Older uses of the Internet such as Gopher, Usenet newsgroups and IRC are hiding away in dusty corners; email is becoming less useful by the day as spammers drown out legitimate messages [...]

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