Archive for the ‘Techy Shitttttt!’ Category
Nerdfighters: Insider View from a YouTube Persona
Google Tech Talks August 8, 2008 ABSTRACT What do Peeps, Catcher in the Rye and Happy Dances have in common? On Friday, YT content Hank & John Green (Brotherhood 2.0) are visiting the Chicago office. They are currently ranked #49 – Most Subscribed (All Time) – Directors in YT — just 7 positions behind Oprah and 2 positions behind Google. The Vlog has been featured on BBC radio and the Wall Street Journal and has a dedicated fan base of over 20000 viewers (called Nerdfighters.) Check out this sample video: www.youtube.com Join us for this Q session on: their subscribers / fans and how they interact with them; how the last 1.5 years of video blogging has been and being part of YT / online video phenomena, etc. Background: Hank and John Green, Brothers for over 27 years, decided not to write to each other during all of 2007, and instead make daily video blogs. Though the project “Brotherhood 2.0″ has now ended, they decided to keep updating the YouTube channel at least once a week. Additionally, the community of nerdfighters that they helped create is now stronger than ever, and lives at: www.nerdfighters.com Speaker John Green THE LONG BIO FOR BOOK REPORTS, THE INSANELY CURIOUS, AND/OR STALKERS John Green is a writer living in Indianapolis, Indiana (by way of New York and Chicago) with his outrageously wonderful wife, Sarah. John’s first novel, Looking for Alaska, was published in 2005. It won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult literature, was a …
Advanced Topics In Programming Languages: Closures For Java
Google Tech Talks January 17, 2007 ABSTRACT We propose to add Closures to the Java Programming Language. Closures simplify the use of APIs that rely on anonymous class instances, such as the concurrency APIs and callbacks. More importantly, closures support control abstractions, which are APIs that act as programmer-defined control constructs. This talk describes the proposed language extension and its design rationale, and shows how it will affect existing and future APIs. Credits: Speaker:Neal Gafter