jsday 2012 – Greg Schechter

May 16th-17th 2012 — Verona, Italy

Greg Schechter

Twitter:: @gregthebusker
Url:: http://www.youtube.com

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Bio

Greg is a fearless web warrior, fighting for browser and website progress. While training at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, he published articles with the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. Subsequently, he went on to battle alongside many different web companies, including Amazon, Yahoo, and Google. His current alliance is with YouTube, where he spearheads the movement for HTML5 video capabilities.

Talks

HTML5, Flash and the Battle for Faster Cat Videos

HTML5; it’s new, it’s awesome, and it’s powerful, but can it take down the champ of video distribution, Flash? Which technology’s got the ability to bring cat video to the next level. This talk will cover the many challenges of both HTML5 and YouTube adapting to change video distribution on the web.

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Mobile Meow: Bringing YouTube Videos to a Mobile World

This is the story of the glory and struggle of bringing a high quality YouTube experience to the mobile web. Once upon a time there was a web developer who wanted to play videos on the web. So he filmed a cat and wrote a Flash and a HTML5 player. He spent many hours making [...]

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