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YouTube beta testing stripped down "Feather" design
They just put the Google homepage on a diet, and now they're looking at ways to trim the fat from YouTube as well.
Google has introduced an opt-in beta for Feather, a new layout which strips away a lot of the excess from the standard page layout. According to the sign-up page, the goal is "to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible."
To make that possible, Feather does away with certain things like search suggestions and the ability to customize embeds (neither of which are huge losses). You'll also give up some socializing features - you can't rate or post comments, and you only get to read the top ten. Of course, by #11 YouTube comments have usually degraded into mindless prattle anyway, so you're not missing much there, either.
Right now, Feather only works on featured videos - but it could go site-wide at some point in the future.
This sure would be a good way for Google to save bandwidth at all those free wifi locations, wouldn't it? Google OS's Alex Chitu reports that Feather pages are about 1/8th (51KB vs. 391KB) the size of the current default.
Google has introduced an opt-in beta for Feather, a new layout which strips away a lot of the excess from the standard page layout. According to the sign-up page, the goal is "to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible."
To make that possible, Feather does away with certain things like search suggestions and the ability to customize embeds (neither of which are huge losses). You'll also give up some socializing features - you can't rate or post comments, and you only get to read the top ten. Of course, by #11 YouTube comments have usually degraded into mindless prattle anyway, so you're not missing much there, either.
Right now, Feather only works on featured videos - but it could go site-wide at some point in the future.
This sure would be a good way for Google to save bandwidth at all those free wifi locations, wouldn't it? Google OS's Alex Chitu reports that Feather pages are about 1/8th (51KB vs. 391KB) the size of the current default.
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Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
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Nick said 11:08AM on 12-03-2009
Needs more HTML5.
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