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ZDNet Asia: Open Source is no longer sexy
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| If anything, âOpen Sourceâ is moving beyond
| âsexyâ right into ârequired labelâ.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/04/zdnet-asia-open-source-is-no-longer-sexy/
Adobe Should Open Source Flash
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| Even if Google opens VP8 there are slim
| chances that arch rivals like Microsoft,
| especially Apple, will adopt Ogg format,
| despite its superior quality and openness.
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| Google should add more weight to Ogg by
| dropping support for proprietary H.264 and
| encouraging usage of Ogg. Considering its
| ownership of YouTube, Chrome browser,
| Android and upcoming Chome OS, Google is in
| a very strong position to boost deployment
| of Ogg over H.264. IE is weakening; Firefox
| is gaining market, Chrome is picking up;
| Opera already supports Ogg, this would be
| the best move for Google to 'force' a free
| format.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/1083/adobe-should-open-source-flash
Best of HTML5
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| Until recently web-based video relied on
| Flash, Adobe's rich media language. But
| HTML could put an end to that with its own
| native video tag. In HTML 5 it is not only
| as easy to embed a video in a website as it
| has been to embed an image - using just one
| tag - but it also opens the way for a host
| of additional features. Using the HTML5
| video tag developers can embed videos
| without third-party codes and manipulate
| the videos in real-time. A demonstration of
| HTML5's video capabilities can be found
| here.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/12127-Best-HTML5.html
Invasion of the .docs
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| The biggest worry in the transition was my
| wife's school-work. She's working on some degrees
| right now, and she has to write an awful lot of papers.
| She also has to read a lot of .doc files. As a former Ubuntu
| user, she also had some old ODF files lying around.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/04/21/Invasion-of-the-docs.aspx
Recent:
Interesting times for Video on the Web
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| If I told you that Google had helped fund
| an ARM code optimised version of the Theora
| video codec, most peopleâs reaction would
| be immediately to skip forward to the next
| blog entry. Audio and video codecs are the
| classic example of things that no one cares
| about, until they donât work.
|
| Ask most computer users what their
| preferred video codec is and theyâll look
| at you as if you asked what sort of motor
| theyâd prefer in their washing machine. âWe
| just want it to work!â they say. In this
| regard, itâs exactly the same for content
| creators and publishers. Every visitor to a
| website that canât view a video is one set
| of eyeballs less for a message to get
| through to. It doesnât matter how clever
| the advertising is, how much time is spent
| honing the message or how many clever viral
| tricks are deployed to attract surfers to
| the site, the moment the page opens up with
| a big blank box where the content should
| be, all that has been in vain.
|
| [...]
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| Fortunately, there is some good news in the
| form of HTML 5. This new version of HTML
| (the basic language used to write webpages)
| introduces a video element.
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http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-times-for-video-on-web.html
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