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Nearly a year ago I wrote a blathering rant about how the common aspect ratios of video is largely irrelevant on the web. To quote myself:
Television has set the standard of common resolutions and aspect ratios for years, but not everything seems as smooth as it should. For one as we are becoming increasingly more web-centric in our distribution models why are we sticking by these ancient limitations of size and shape. Isn’t there something inherently more flexible with the web? Let’s challenge those norms and create something new with video.
And then today I saw these:
Interesting, no?
Update: I clicked around a littler further and found the blog of the creator of the second video. On Jesse Rosten’s blog he shares very similar thoughts regarding nontraditional video.
After reading about a program called Mousepaths on Scott Hansen’s ISO50 blog I thought I’d give it a try myself.
Mousepaths (now called IOGraph) tracks your mouse movement in the background. When your mouse is inactive it builds a black dot, that grows as more time passes. Clicks appear as white dots.
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It’s interesting to see after 7 hours of work where my mouse spends most of it’s time. Apparently I rarely use my secondary monitor, mainly to move something back and forth. I also would like to state that the two big black dots are lunch and a meeting. Most definitely not me slacking off.
You can download IOGraph from Anatoly Zenkov’s site. It’s cross-platform and a fun passive activity while you toil away.
Palm’s CEO wrote an internal message to the company’s employees after finical forecasts were deemed to be less than what was hoped. My favorite quote:
“You may have also seen a growing number of Palm ads on billboards, bus shelters, buses, and subway stations—all getting the word out about Palm.”
No mention of online advertising or even television? What is Palm doing in the advertising channels potential customers might actually see?
I really would like to see Palm succeed, they have a nice product and a great history.
Old in internet time, but hilarious.
I had the entire thing stuck in my head today…all day.