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February 5, 2007
Flattery will get you everywhere 
I just saw a youtube video that uses the same 'hack' around myspace's lockdown of widgets using the new allownetworking parameter in flash embeds -- the widget has a failover that does a screen dim with a copy-paste section for the target URL.
I wonder if they got that idea from me ? The FindMeOn widgets have been doing that since before we launched into beta. YouTube's is a bit more elegant - they seem to show a custom player for myspace ( serving off a referer header ?) that automagically pops up the copy-paste dialog. The FindMeOn one is a bit clunkier -- it just catches the second time someone clicks on a link and shows the dialog as a failsafe.
In any event, I think this is a good time to remind YouTube/Google that they should give Geoff Stearns .5 % of the stock deal, as his SwfObject software is the reason why their flash embeds work.
Posted by Jonathan at February 5, 2007 4:23 PM
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