John Polacek

Chicago Web Developer

Engineering manager and frontend lead at Howl

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Channel of Awesome

Originally published on 10/14/2012
Channel of Awesome screenshot with watch button

Like I imagine is the case for most large ad agencies, we have a number of large flat screen tvs in various places around the office. They show things like CNN, our creative reel, etc. Ive been thinking about what Id like to see on these screens. What Ive come up with is the Channel of Awesome a collection of video clips featuring modern technology that I consider mindblowing. The kind of stuff that makes you feel like youre living in the future.

What about other people who might want to share their own collections of amazing videos? Well, Ive open sourced the project on Github and have made it fairly easy for anybody to create their own Channels of Awesome. Do you like cat videos? Just go onto YouTube and Vimeo, gather the video IDs of the best cat videos the internet has to offer and create a link like this:

http://johnpolacek.github.com/channel-of-awesome/#youtube:wf_IIbT8HGk,youtube:plWnm7UpsXk,vimeo:23608259

Voila, you now have a Channel of Awesome for cats!