http://wehavebeards.com Discussing Movies, Books, Music, TV, Art and Food Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:55:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/09/02/arcade-fire-and-google-team-up-to-create-a-chrome-experiment-the-wilderness-downtown/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/09/02/arcade-fire-and-google-team-up-to-create-a-chrome-experiment-the-wilderness-downtown/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:57:41 +0000 Red Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=2239 Google, Arcade Fire and Chris Milk have created an HTML5 music video specifically for the Chrome web browser. It’s also tailored to the individual viewer. Oh and kind of bad-ass. The most important part of this for Google is showing off HTML5, or what I like to call Flash Killer. (Flash is not quite dead, but a [...] Related posts:

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