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YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie

I’m a big YouTube fan. We can thank YouTube for cutting the gordian knot of video codecs. Instead of futzing around with codecs and media players, YouTube’s universal, Flash-based web video “just works.” After all this time, it turns out the killer app for Flash wasn’t advertising

By Jeff Atwood ·
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Learning from TEH INTARWEB

I try to avoid posting entries from the Mindless Link Propagation Department, but Adam Bosworth’s article Learning from The Web is excellent and it deserves a careful read: The Web taught us several unintuitive lessons: 1. Simple, relaxed, sloppily extensible text formats and protocols often work better than complex

By Jeff Atwood ·
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