Customized Version of Google by Infinise Design.

Simple and nice! I think Google should consider it!

How Should We Define “Design”? by Gardi Amit

1. Is there truly a “new design” phenomenon?
2. Is any idea, whether it’s an initiative for social progress or a clever way to market movies, enough to be declared a work of design?
3. Can a construct such as a “process,” “business plan” or a “system” be work of design?
4. Lastly, are these metaphysical constructs always design or is there a threshold of beauty, a rigorous process, or another quality standard that must be met for something to be considered a design? In other words, is a ‘business plan’ always a form of “new design” or does it have to involve some level of good, “old fashioned” design to be considered more than an ordinary business plan? And, if the latter, what are the requisite elements that would distinguish one from the other?

Design makes something more functional precisely because of its beautification. That also distinguishes design from say, engineering, where something is made better in ways that have nothing to do with its beauty.

To me, design is best defined with actions as opposed to words. I hope I never find the answer, and doubt I ever will.

This photo was taken of metropolitan New York City (and other parts of New York as well as New Jersey) the morning of September 11, 2001.

Our prayers and thoughts go out to all the people there, and everywhere else.

said Station Commander Frank Culbertson of Expedition 3, after the terrorists’ attacks.

Image credit: NASA

Everybody know, we can upload video clips to the Facebook site. But, Facebook doesn’t (officially) provide an embed code for their videos. When you found a very interesting video on Facebook but how you do share it with your blog readers since there’s no code to embed that video into your site. The other problem is you can watch video clips on Facebook only if you are logged into your Facebook account. But how do you share these video clips with people who aren’t members of Facebook?

Here’s a way that will let you embed any Facebook video into your web pages, a simple trick.

Every video uploaded on Facebook has a unique ID that you can find in the browser’s address bar (look for the value of parameter "v").

Copy that number(ID) and replace it with "xxx" in the code below.

<object width="400" height="224" >
  <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
  <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
  <param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx" />
  <embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="224">
  </embed>
</object>

Now you can put that code on any web pages and the video will play just fine, and watch it here itself without having to become a Facebook member.

Thanks, Amit!

Update: OK, since December 5, 2008 Facebook has placed "Embed this Video" links on video pages of videos, with the same code, I'm really out.