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BigVideo.js - The jQuery Plugin for Big Background Video. The jQuery Plugin for Big Background Video (and Images) This plugin makes it easy to add fit-to-fill background video to websites.

BigVideo.js - The jQuery Plugin for Big Background Video

It can play silent ambient background video (or series of videos). Or use it as a player to show video playlist. BigVideo.js can also show big background images, which is nice to have for showing big background images for devices that don’t have autoplay for ambient video. BigVideo.js is built on top of Video.js from zencoder. You can read about how to use BigVideo.js below. DOWNLOAD: zip tar examples bower install BigVideo.js Setup BigVideo.js uses the Video.js api. To simply play a video that takes up the entire browser window (like in this example), do this: Fullscreen Video Slideshow with BigVideo.js. Inspirations. For your eyes only: How the personalized Web is transforming our relationship with technology. Social media already adds a personal layer to our online experience, but next-generation Web services are tapping the power of the cloud and massive data sets to bring us a new level of personalization in recommendations and behavioral predictions.

For your eyes only: How the personalized Web is transforming our relationship with technology

Search plus your personal life Unsurprisingly, Google is heavily invested in the move to personalization. It announced a significant step towards personalized search last week with a plan to begin sourcing information from Gmail, Calendar and Google+ for search results. This isn’t the first time that Google has taken its search engine personal, but the company is clearly trying to adjust our expectations for it. For years, we’ve been conditioned to think of Google results as objective. Ironically enough, if you want to understand the future of Google, you need look no further than Google Now. Scoble says he’s “in 100%” and living over the line. Civilization of this content Big data Data mine I, Spy Header image credit: iStockphoto.

Urban World: A new app for exploring an unprecedented wave of urbanization. The growth of cities in emerging markets is driving the most significant economic transformation in history.

Urban World: A new app for exploring an unprecedented wave of urbanization

The McKinsey Global Institute’s first ever app, Urban World, offers a sense of how economic power will move as this urban expansion takes place. Now available for iPad, iPhone, and Android, the app offers previously unavailable data from a proprietary MGI database of more than 2,600 cities around the world. The app also places urbanization in a historical context, using a view from space of the global nighttime distribution of light as a proxy for the global distribution of economic activity. Users can visualize the world’s shifting center of economic gravity during the past two millennia, to 2025.

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Publish Everywhere. Plans and Pricing. Malcolm Gladwell. Facebook testing modern new look for its Android app. A while back, Facebook was testing a few A/B design scenarios on its iPhone and Android apps.

Facebook testing modern new look for its Android app

Some users would have a left sliding menu, others a stationary tab bar at the bottom to access notifications, menus, etc. This change became permanent when iOS 7 rolled around and Facebook updated all iPhone users to the new bottom tab menu. The same appears to be happening on Android, as Facebook has rolled out a new version which seems to be testing a similar variance on some users’ devices. Specifically, the test build moves the most important tabs to the top of the screen, re-situating the Status, Photo and Check In buttons to the bottom. Along with the removal of the left-side sliding menu, which in its current form appears to scroll forever and has lost much of its usefulness, the new look is much simpler and flatter — more like recent Holo-designed Android apps. Do let us know if you come across the new layout; it would be interesting to see how far it reaches.

5 Principles of Persuasive Web Design. 366inShareinShare What’s the best way to persuade somebody when talking to them?

5 Principles of Persuasive Web Design

You have to be confident, talk fast and swear a little, among other things. But what about persuading somebody without words – possible? You bet. Researchers installed a ‘fly’ onto urinals across different airports around the world: Persuasive Psychology for Interactive Design (1-day crash course) Slideshow - Does interactivity affect training performance. Strategic UX - UX People. Presentation Training: Which Presentation Training Approach Should You Use - Linear Vs Nonlinear Learning.

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Presentation Training: Which Presentation Training Approach Should You Use - Linear Vs Nonlinear Learning

Whatever your career, you need to know how to present your message to others in a method that your target audience will understand, retain and most importantly, act on, the information you are giving them. Consider the use of linear and nonlinear presentation methods for your next group gathering. What does linear and nonlinear mean? To learn in a linear manner means to learn concepts in a graduated or building block method. Simple concepts are mastered first and then more complex concepts based on the first stage or block of information are introduced. To learn in a nonlinear manner, means to learn concepts individually and then combine the knowledge of the concepts as an entire package. Who are linear and nonlinear thinkers?

Violence and guns in best-selling video games – interactive. Collapsible Force Layout. Exoplanets.