Sometimes inspiring, sometimes corny, plenty entertaining. Apparently the story isn't just the content of this video, it's the medium:
Developers at the browser maker's Drumbeat project — an initiative that advocates new open web technologies — have created Popcorn, a tool intended to make web video every bit as interactive as the rest of the web.
I like the idea. But, hey, I also liked VH1's Pop-Up Video show. The demo isn't as "in your face" as I'd imagined. The enhancements are mostly elsewhere on the page, except for the subtitles. I've seen augmented reality and several other cluttered visions of what was first called "interactive television," but Popcorn keeps things pretty well spread out. It does seem to lag a little bit -- expected -- as it identifies locations and people, then looks them up on Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Google, and so on. I like how the list of sites is dynamic, i.e., that list is probably not comprehensive.
I wonder about what seems to keep happening to companies that do one thing really well -- or at least, really lucratively -- and then say, Wow, let's branch out into something else! and then they die this horrible death, usually from starvation, and everyone just looks on, agonizing in blog posts about how great that company was, analyzing where they went wrong, and wondering whether the tools that this dying company developed will still be supported.
Oh, well. Good luck, Mozilla! We hardly knew ye, anyway.
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A duck walks in to a bank, right up to a teller and asks, "Do you have any corn here?" The teller answers "No, we don't have any corn here." The duck turns around and walks out.
The next day, the duck walks back in to the bank, goes to the same teller, and asks, "Do you have any corn here?" The teller answers, "No, we don't have any corn here." Unfazed, the duck turns around and walks back out again.
The duck repeats this for several days with the same teller. One day, the teller answers, "No, we don't have any corn here, and if you come in here and ask me that one more time, I'm going to nail your beak to the counter!"
The next day, the duck walks back in to the bank, right up to the teller and asks, "Do you have any nails here?" The teller answers "No, we don't."
"Well, in that case", says the duck, "Do you have any corn?"
Oh, well. Good luck, Mozilla! We hardly knew ye, anyway.
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A duck walks in to a bank, right up to a teller and asks, "Do you have any corn here?" The teller answers "No, we don't have any corn here." The duck turns around and walks out.
The next day, the duck walks back in to the bank, goes to the same teller, and asks, "Do you have any corn here?" The teller answers, "No, we don't have any corn here." Unfazed, the duck turns around and walks back out again.
The duck repeats this for several days with the same teller. One day, the teller answers, "No, we don't have any corn here, and if you come in here and ask me that one more time, I'm going to nail your beak to the counter!"
The next day, the duck walks back in to the bank, right up to the teller and asks, "Do you have any nails here?" The teller answers "No, we don't."
"Well, in that case", says the duck, "Do you have any corn?"
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