Speakers: Geoff Stearns

Session

YouTube Lessons Learned

How would you build a Flash widget that is used by hundreds of millions of users every day? In this session we'll talk about rebuilding the YouTube video players. Part case study, part tutorial, this session will talk about how we went about rebuilding what is possibly the internet's most used Flash widget.

Bio

Geoff Stearns is a Flash Engineer at YouTube and the author of SWFObject, a Flash Plugin detection and embedding script that has become the de-facto standard for embedding Flash content. Before joining Google, Geoff worked on web projects for Adobe, MTV, New York's MoMA, XM Radio, Comcast, Sony Pictures Classics and taught front end web development at The Cooper Union in New York. Geoff also maintains a personal blog at blog.deconcept.com.