If you like to analyze influence using a service called Klout — or, you like to analyze your own Klout score — this might be a good news. Klout just added five new services to build (hopefully) better scoring. You can now add services like Tumblr, Instagram, Blogger.com, Flickr and Last.fm.
The additional services try to cover popular services for blogging, photo sharing and also audio. Those services make internet users become more connected each other.
I’m curious whether other popular services like WordPress, Smugmug and Google Plus will be added there or not. Google Plus does not have its API right now. Okey, we’ll see. How’s your Klout score?
Last year, YouTube introduced its new video player design, and I decided to use it before it was released for public. Now, YouTube has another new player design. This time, it’s dark.
The next question is: Do you like it? Do I like it? The dark element can add more contrast, but when I want to include YouTube videos on my blog and dark element does not meet my website design, that might be a problem. Well, not a problem actually, but when light player is much better, probably black is not an option.
Instagram announced another milestone yesterday on their blog:
Today, we’re excited to announce that more than 150 million photos have been shared on Instagram and Instagrammers now share photos with one another at a rate of 15 photos per second.
And, it only took less than a year to hit that impressive statistics! And, I never had a chance to have Instagram-experience. Should I get an iPhone? Errr…
Anyway, this is the 150,000,000th photo posted to Instagram:
What about other similar service like Yahoo! Flickr or Smugmug? Even they’re not identical services and probably reach different users, it’s still interesting to read the statistics.
Flickr — owned by Yahoo! — just got its 5,000,000,000 last year. Yahoo! bought Flickr in March 2005. That’s right, it was six years ago. I don’t know exactly how many photos sent to Flickr per day, but it seems that Flickr got less photos — considering the photo sharing services and their simplicity these days. Well, correct me if I’m wrong on this matter.
Another photo sharing service is Smugmug. It’s not that big, but it seems that Smugmug has many happy users. If we look at the service profile, there are more than 1,400,000,000 photos uploaded. Smugmug was launched in November 2002.
And, last but not least, there is also 500px. Not sure about the exact photo statistics, but last week update posted on 500px blogs can give you some hints. According to the website statistics: “500px.com passed 4 million visits in the last 30 days, 35 million pageviews and 1.9 million unique visitors”.
I’m happy with my Nokia N8. For photo and video features, I don’t use many advanced techniques. And, I have some videos published at Dadio.TV using Nokia N8, so far I’m happy with the result. You can see more than 700 photos I took using Nokia N8 at Flickr.
If you want to see an example of creative and advanced technique using Nokia N8, you should see Gulp. It’s the world’s largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. Here’s the final video:
So, what is Gulp?
‘Gulp’ is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the ‘largest stop-motion animation set’, with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.
There are some details on the production process at Nseries blog. These photos (and beind the scene videos) from the production must be watched.
CNNGo.com released an article of 50 World’s most delicious food, and put Rendang (from Indonesia) on the 11th most delicious food! That’s right, rendang from Indonesia! CNNGo.com described Rendang as:
Beef is slowly simmered with coconut milk and a mixture of lemongrass, galangal, garlic, turmeric, ginger and chilies, then left to stew for a few hours to create this dish of tender, flavorful bovine goodness.
Tasting it fresh out of the kitchen will send your stomach into overdrive, but many people think it gets even better when left overnight.
So, what’s the most delicious food in the world according the article? Here are the top three:
For a complete list, go to World’s 50 most delicious foods at CNNGo.com. Yummy!
Finally, Twitter users are now able to have Twitter’s interface in Bahasa Indonesia! Indonesia is available as the 11th languages options. I think this is a good move since Twitter is getting more popular in Indonesia. According to the statistics last year, Indonesia was the top contributing countries after the United States and Japan. And, both languages (Dutch and Bahasa Indonesia) are the first languages translated by the community through Twitter Translation Center.
For a complete list, Twitter is now available in: Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, English, Korean, French, Dutch, Russian, German, Japanese. You can choose the language settings from Account menu tab.
I’m not a frequent flyer, but I sometime visited multiple Indonesia airlines websites just to get some information, especially for the ticket prices. I sometime try the navigation, or test the website features. By this, I want to learn how those websites are designed.
So, here are some screenshots of Indonesia airlines websites. I took the screenshots using the same conditions: Mozilla Firefox Browsers with the same screen dimension. From the screenshots you can also see what elements are being displayed above the fold — on my screen, of course. The screenshots are displayed not in a particular order.
I currently involve in a website project that put videos as its primary contents. My involvement is not primary on the design. I’m just helping a little. What I like from the process is to find solution. One of the problem is on the navigation menu. It’s very common to have navigation with sub-menus. Without having special objects like flash, everything should be under control. But, not this time.
When embedding a video from YouTube (in this case, using the iframe method), the navigation is broken because it sits behind the video. The same result with the old embed code. See the screenshot below:
It’s wrong. The menu should be displayed above the video. It should be like the image below:
So, is there a simple way to fix this problem? Yes.
The solution is pretty easy. You only need to add a parameter for the embed code. It’s wmode=transparent. I will use an example here. This is an embed code from Serabi Solo video at YouTube:
<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Gi-lO8OMUns" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The code above should me modified by adding wmode=transparent parameter. The final code will be like this:
<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Gi-lO8OMUns?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
It’s easy, right? But, what if you want to use the old embed code? You can fix the problem using a same method. For example, this is YouTube’s old embed code from the same video:
<object width="560" height="349">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gi-lO8OMUns?version=3&hl=en_US"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gi-lO8OMUns?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</object>
You need to add a parameter. Just add <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />.
The final code will be like this:
<object width="560" height="349">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gi-lO8OMUns?version=3&hl=en_US"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gi-lO8OMUns?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</object>
Have fun!
When Mac OS X Lion was available at App Store, I decided to download it right away. After purchasing it, I continued with the installation process. I upgraded from Snow Leopard. Anyway, I usually download the updates available from Software Update menu when there are new updates available.
With the not-so-bad internet connection, it took around 5 hours to complete (downloading and installation processes). Here are some screenshots:
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