Back in August Google rolled out a collections of themes for its Chrome browser, giving users the chance to swap the browser’s blue-hued palette in favor of something a bit more colorful. Earlier this month it took things one step further, bringing onboard style icons like Dolce & Gabbana, Kate Spade, and Oscar de la Renta to design their own themes for the gallery. And today, it’s released a new video to promote these themes to the masses, using some YouTube trickery to leave a lasting impression. You can check out the video here. Make sure to watch til the end.
Chrome Themes are comparable to Firefox’s Personas, which were released by Mozilla Labs back in March, though Personas has a larger array of themes available in its directory.
Spoiler warning: This isn’t the first video to use such trickery on YouTube (you’ll notice the entire page is a Flash embed). Remember this Wario Land ad by Nintendo?
Love it! Not quite Wario Land creative, but still gets the message across effectively. I’d love to see more companies market this way.
Oh, and Google Chrome Rocks!
http://www.google.com/chrome
And it finishes with a gray background. Ha ha
Not as good as the Vimeo “Let It Shine” Honda ad, which you can’t even notice is a full-page thing because much of the full-page integration stuff is actually done with JavaScript!
http://vimeo.com/4281939
yeah, it’s pretty good
That was pretty interesting. I’ve been running the dev version of Chrome since they added bookmark syncing, it’s pretty sweet although they should let you remap the keybinds.
Awesomesauce
It looks fun and I love the browser….
Except that its STILL NOT ON MAC. Come on Google, publish chrome for mac already WTH is the hold up.
Now that is an awesome trick!
How’d they do that?
Can we do that?
>>How’d they do that?
The whole page is actually a flash swf. Its not your average youtube video page.
Can we do that?
Not on youtube.com. Somewhere else, of course!
Why does Google consistently bash Adobe and Flash for not being open web standards, then turn around and use it to produce some of their coolest stuff?
totally worth the $1 billion
Very nice, but not really a trick, just a full page Flash file. Right click anywhere on a typical YouTube page and you’ll get either the Flash menu or the HTML/CSS menu.
All they did is create a very fake YouTube page in Flash — the entire page is one big Flash movie.
Nice job, though.
Now that is really something .. amazing …
Cheers,
Daina
watch the whole set of atrist theme video over here
http://thetechn...-artist-in-you/
Similar to the fake you tube comments included in the ad, I really want to know what song that is! Anyone know?