Greg Schechter

Greg Schechter
Web Warrior, YouTube

Website | @gregthebusker | Attendee Directory Profile

Greg is a fearless web warrior, fighting for browser and website progress. While training at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, he published articles with the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. Subsequently, he went on to battle alongside many different web companies, including Amazon, Yahoo, and Google. His current alliance is with YouTube, where he spearheads the movement for HTML5 video capabilities.

Sessions

4:05pm Thursday, 06/16/2011
HTML5, Flash and the Battle for Faster Cat Videos
Web Performance Mission City
Greg Schechter (YouTube), Phil Harnish (YouTube)
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(3.75, 8 ratings)
HTML5; it’s new, it’s awesome, and it’s powerful, but can it take down the champ of video distribution, Flash. Which technology's got the ability to bring cat video to the next level. This talk will cover the many challenges of both HTML5 and YouTube adapting to change video distribution on the web. Read more.
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