Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his "20 percent time" building a new version of YouTube just for places for slow internet connections. It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTube page that contained no more than 100 kilobytes of data, so that it could quickly load on machines in developing countries and other places where internet pipes were painfully narrow.



via Wired Top Stories http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/uHjrs_opXKA/