Great read on how a few YouTube engineers bypassed the internal Google politics in order to abolish IE6 from their list of supported browsers:
One idea rose to the surface that quickly captured everyone’s attention. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? …
Today I went onto YouTube and found a video from someone I’m subscribed to. I haven’t watched his videos in a while, but this one caught my eye as it was titled “Well this sucks”. Curiosity got the better of me, and I had to take a look. He talks about recently opening up with mental health and struggles to find tell …
James Bridle – whom you might know from his autonomous trap for self-driving cars – on the dangers of leaving your children on YouTube unattended:
Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on YouTube hack the brains of young children in …
It is easy to upload videos to your own YouTube channel but there’s one limitation. Only the owner of the channel can upload videos to their YouTube account and they cannot delegate the task to someone else in the team.
Google Drive has the concept of shared folders. A folder can have multiple collaborators and …
For the past few months, I have been on a learning spree looking to enhance my existing coding skills and also learn new programming languages and frameworks. In this process, I have watched a countless number of video tutorials and online courses that pertain to programming and, specifically, web development.
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Saregama Carvaan, a digital music player that looks like an old-fashioned transistor radio and targets the non-millennial generation, has become a huge hit in India. The company analysed data from online music streaming sites like Saavn, Gaana and YouTube, came up with a catalogue of 5000+ “greatest” Hindi movie …
The following post shows how you can retrieve any YouTube video thumbnails in PHP without using the YouTube api. I needed this for a onetime solution to get some thumbnails for a few videos and using the api seemed a little time consuming. So here goes.
YouTube video thumbnail structure
The urls from where you …
YouTube’s gaming platform, available at gaming.youtube.com , primarily focuses on live streaming of video games. It may not have an audience as large as Amazon’s Twitch TV but there exist a few unique features that make the YT Gaming app useful for everyone, not just professional gamers.
One, you don’t need …
Wouldn’t it be great if you could check your emails on the phone and also enjoy YouTube videos in the background at the same time? Or, to save battery, you turn off the phone display and YouTube would still continue to stream the audio from the selected YouTube playlist in the background.
Unfortunately, none of …
On January 2, 2017 I published a video on YouTube telling everyone I was starting a daily vlog . I also told them I’d probably fail. I did.
I remember the …
YouTube, the second largest search engine after Google, offers extremely powerful search commands but there’s one important search functionality that YouTube is yet to include in its mobile app for both Android & iPhone.
You cannot search for videos within a specific YouTube channel while using YouTube on a …
